Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 193
er, vates et fama poesis,Maternae hac sacra sum tumulatus humo. Although the poet was certainly wrong who called Geoffrey Chaucer a well of English undefiled, for he wrote at the period when our languagewas most corrupted by the introduction of Gallicisms, yet he was certainly thefirst writer,… … clime. In this respect he fully merited the encomium awarded to him byLydgate:— The notable rhetor, poet of Britaine, That worthie was the laurell to have Of poetry, and the palme attaine; That made first to distill and raine The golde dew-drops of speech and eloquence Into our tongue, thorough his…
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