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Virgidemiarvm

Sixe Bookes. First three Bookes. Of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. 1. Poeticall. 2. Academicall. 3. Morall: Corrected and amended
Hall, Joseph (1574-1656)

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His Defiance to Enuie.
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VIRGIDEMIARVM.
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LIB. I.
  
Prologue.
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SAT. I.
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SAT. II.
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SAT. III.
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SAT. IIII.
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SAT. V.
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SAT. VI.
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SAT VII.
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SAT. VIII.
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SAT. IX.
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Lib. II
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Lib. III
  
The Authors charge to his Satyres.
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LIB. 4.
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LIB. 6.

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SAT. VI.

[Another scorns the home-spun threed of rimes]

Another scorns the home-spun threed of rimes
Match'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 lingring Spondees, labouring to delay,
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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