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The Testament of Cresseid, in the well-known rhyme-royal seven line stanza, is a not unworthy tragic sequel to Chaucer's Troylus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The thirteen pastoral Fables, also in rhyme-royal, are told with great freshness, humour, and directness, and the moral of each does not lose by being kept artistically separate from the story.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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He showed, indeed, already his extraordinary metrical skill, experimenting with rhyme-royal and other stanzas, fourteeners or eights and sixes, anapæsts more or less irregular, and an exceedingly important variety of octosyllable which, whatever may have been his own idea in practising it, looked back to early Middle
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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Hymn, and returned to the more stately and solemn rhyme-royal of its overture, as more suited to his subject.
England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868
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