THE
ART
OF
ENGLISH POETRY
CONTAINING,
I. Rules for making Verses.
II. A Dictionary of Rhymes.
III. A Collection of the most Natural,
Agreeable, and Noble Thoughts,
viz. Allusions, Similes, Descriptions, and
Characters, of Persons and Things; that are
to be found in the best English Poets.
BY
By EDW. BYSSHE, Gent.
Munus & Officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo;
Unde parentur opes; quit alat, formetque Poetam:
Quid deceat, quid non: quo Virtus, quo ferat Error.
Horat.
LONDON,
Printed for R. Knaplock At the Angel
in St. Paul's Church-Yard; E. Castle next
Scotland-Yard-Gate by White-Hall;
and B. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1702.
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