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There was yet another kind of Poet, who intended to taxe the common abuses and vice of the people in rough and bitter speaches, and their inuectiues were called Satyres, and them selues Satyricques.
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Satyres, for example, we need no external proof to tell us that these are the work of a boy.
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If we turn again to Satyres, it is easy to see why this should be so.
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_Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image and Certaine Satyres_ (1598), and his _Scourge of Villanie_ (1599) had been published.
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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Afterward the same came to be put in paper and in bookes, and vsed as ordinarie missiues, some of frendship, some of defiaunce, or as other messages of mirth: _Martiall_ was the cheife of this skil among the Latines, & at ahese days the best Epigrames we finde, & of the sharpest conceit are those that haue bene gathered among the reliques of the two muet _Satyres_ in Rome, _Pasquill_ and
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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And the same Q. Ennius in his Satyres, very elegantlye in trim verses hath described the two laste, whereof worthie to be had in harte and memorie,
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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As it hath bene declared, the _Satyres_ were first vttered in their hallowed places within the woods where they honoured their gods vunder the open heauen, because they had no other housing fit for great assemblies.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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And vppon euerie side the same diuided into three, the middle parte betwixt the fall of the waters intercepted, did contayne in halfe bodyes carued, a tryumph of Satyres and Nymphes, with Trophees, and exquysite actions, excepte the fore-part and hinder parte moderately sinuated and bent in.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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In The Mastive, or Young Whelpe of the Olde Dogge, Epigrams and Satyres (1615), an anonymous work of Henry Peacham, we read: --
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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Satyres et Nymphes de Diane_, imitated from the Italian of Sannazaro.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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