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So said another of our rimers, meaning to shew the great annoy and difficultie of those warres of Troy, caused for _Helenas_ sake.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

So said another of our rimers, meaning to shew the great annoy and difficultie of those warres of Troy, caued for Helenas sake.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

_Alexandrine_, and is with our moderne rimers most usuall: with the auncient makers it was not so.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Note also that rime or concorde is not commendably vsed both in the end and middle of a verse, vnlesse it be in toyes and trifling Poesies, for it sheweth a certaine lightnesse either of the matter or of the makers head, albeit these common rimers vse it much, for as I sayd before, like as the

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

It is a figure much vsed by our common rimers, and doth well if it be not too much vsed, for then it falleth into the vice which shalbe hereafter spoken of called _Tautologia.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

_Cesure_ be iust in the middle, and that ye suffer him to runne at full length, and do not as the common rimers do; or their Printer for sparing of paper, cut them of in the middest, wherin they make in two verses but halfe rime.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

For [_your lowring lookes_] And as one of our ordinary rimers said,

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

A lively controversy was waged at the end of the sixteenth century between the Renaissance classicists, who of course condemned it, and the native rimers, but was brought to a peaceful conclusion by Samuel Daniels 'A Defence of Rhyme in 1603.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

Your ordinarie rimers vse very much their measures in the odde as nine and eleuen, and the sharpe accent vpon the last sillable, which therefore makes him go ill fauouredly and like a minstrels musicke.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

For it was essentially a Court poetry; the poet declaimed or sang his verse to an audience of knightly rimers and noble ladies, and was untroubled by the attention of a larger public.

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