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For to an historicall poeme no certain number is limited, but as the matter fals out: also a _distick_ or couple of verses is not to be accompted a staffe, but serues for a continuance as we see in Elegie,
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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He had entered as a competitor for a "Tragicall poeme," but was too sportsmanlike to seek victory by art necromantic.
Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878
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For to an historicall poeme no certain number is limited, but as the matter fals out: also a distick or couple of verses is not to be accompted a staffe, but serues for a continuance as we see in Elegie, Epitaph, Epigramme or such meetres, of plaine concord not harmonically entertangled, as some other songs of more delicate musick be.
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And this kind of poeme was called _Comedy_, and followed next after the
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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And this kind of poeme was called Comedy, and followed next after the Satyre, & by that occasion was somwhat sharpe and bitter after the nature of the Satyre, openly & by expresse names taxing men more maliciously and impudently then became, so as they were enforced for feare of quarell & blame to disguise their players with strange apparell, and by colouring their faces and carying hatts & capps of diuerse fashions to make them selues lesse knowen.
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Excellent poeme Nassamat … Il semblerait que je ne soit pas le seul addict du Maroc!
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Went to lunch and was surprisingly given copy of Bernard Heidsieck's poeme-partition "X".
swoonrocket jms 2009
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Ich dide seke to combyne a referaunce to the fyne poeme Widsyth and also to a shirte ich haue seen of oold that seyde 'dont make me get my flying monkeys.'
Chaucer, Making a Quick Buck Richard Nokes 2006
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Renommé Raven parce qu'il me fait penser a un corbeau et The Raven est un poeme d'Edgar Allan Poe ecriavin que j'apprecie beaucoup!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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The last was Les Dieux dechus, poeme en 20 chants, par
The Newcomes 2006
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