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SAT. VI.
[Another scorns the home-spun threed of rimes]
Another scorns the home-spun threed of rimesMatch'd with the loftie feet of eldertimes:
Giue him the numbred verse that Uirgil sung,
And Uirgil selfe shall speake the English tongue:
Manhood & garboiles shall he chaunt with changed feete,
And head-strong Dactils making musicke meete,
The nimble Dactils striuing to out-goe
The drawling Spondees pacing it below.
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The breath-lesse Dactils with a sudden stay.
Who euer saw a colt wanton and wilde,
Yok'd with a slow-foote Oxe on fallow field,
Can right areed how handsomly besets
Dull Spondees with the English Dactilets?
If Ioue speake English in a thundring cloud.
Thwick thwack, and rif raf rores he out aloud.
Fie on the forged mint that did create
New coyne of words neuer articulate.
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