Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Vers…

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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing. ✨ Paradise Lost. The Verse, 1668.
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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing. ✨ Paradise Lost. The Verse, 1668.

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