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In Times of Old indeed, when Time was young,
Homer, the first of Bards, his History sung;
And every Poet, since the Iliad, chuses,
For Want of Voice, t'invoke the Singing Muses;
From whence (with Leave) this Inference we draw,
In Aristotle's Institutes, 'tis Law.
“Blank Verse, or Rhyme, to Instruments well strung,
“Shou'd be Recitativ'd, or else in Ballad sung.”
Aristot. Fol. 497.
Homer, the first of Bards, his History sung;
And every Poet, since the Iliad, chuses,
For Want of Voice, t'invoke the Singing Muses;
From whence (with Leave) this Inference we draw,
In Aristotle's Institutes, 'tis Law.
“Blank Verse, or Rhyme, to Instruments well strung,
“Shou'd be Recitativ'd, or else in Ballad sung.”
Aristot. Fol. 497.
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