From Samuel Daniel's Defence of Rhyme:
"Besides, to me this change of number in a Poem of one nature fits not
so wel, as to mixe vncertainly, feminine Rymes with masculine, which,
euer since I was warned of that deformitie by my kinde friend and
countriman Maister Hugh Samford, I haue alwayes so auoided it, as there
are not aboue two couplettes in that kinde in all my Poem of the Ciuill
warres: and I would willingly if I coulde, haue altered it in all the
rest, holding feminine Rymes to be fittest for Ditties, and either to be
set certaine, or else by themselues."
Can anyone paraphrase these last two lines?
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Dr. David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [log in to unmask]
English Department Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c
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