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Poetry, therefore, is where any worke is learnedly compiled in measurable speech, and framed in wordes conteyning number or proportion of just syllables, delighting the readers or hearers as well by the apt and decent framing of wordes in equal resemblance of quantity commonly called verse, as by the skylfull handling of the matter. Webbe organizes his treatise in good rhetorical fashion.
The chief and most obvious device is that suggested by the title The Shepherd's Calender 'Conteyning twelve Aeglogues proportionable to the twelve monethes. This might, indeed, have been no more than a fanciful name for any series of twelve poems; with Spenser it indicates a conscious principle of artistic construction.
As concerning which thing, I translated a book that was presented vnto me in the Moscouites tongue, and haue here made a briefe rehearsall of the same. I will first therefore describe the iourney from Moscouia to Petzora, and so to Iugaria and Obi. From Moscouia to the citie of Vologda, are numbered fiue hundred versts, one verst, conteyning almost the space of an Italian myle.
Ludlow, desired the charge might bee proued, wch accordingly the plant' did, and first an attestation vnder Master Dauenports hand, conteyning the testimony of Master and Mistris Dauenport, was presented and read; but the defendant desired what was testified and accepted for proofe might be vpon oath, vpon wch Mr.
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