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Ouid in the 15. booke of his Metamor. ascribeth vnto the riuer of the Cicones.
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Ouid in the 15. booke of his Metamor. ascribeth vnto the riuer of the Cicones.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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We finde some but very few of these ryming verses among the Latines of the ciuiller ages, and those rather hapning by chaunce then of any purpose in the writer, as this _Distick_ among the disportes of _Ouid_.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Law, Phisicke and marchaundise: to these I will giue none other aunswere then referre them to the many trifling poemes of _Homer, Ouid, Virgill,
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Ouid also the Poete intreated of di - uers fables, wherein he giueth admonicion, and godly coun -
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_Eligiack_: such among the Latines were _Ouid, Tibullus_, & _Propertius_.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Nothing may endure (saith Ouid) without some rest.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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_ Few of the vniuersity pen plaies well; they smell too much of that writer Ouid, and that writer Metamorphosis, [xi: 1] and talke too much of Proserpina and Juppiter.
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833
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And addeth further, that such fountains are to bee found in certaine places of Italy: which thing Ouid in the 15. booke of his Metamor. ascribeth vnto the riuer of the Cicones.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Quod noc imber nec aquilo vorax &c. Therefore let not be enuied, that this Poete in his Epilogue sayth he hath mad a Calendar, that shall endure as long as time &c. folowing the example of Horace and Ouid in the like.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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