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A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sir Philip Sidney
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paraphrased in his "London:"

"Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest."

{89} George Bachanan (who died in 1582, aged seventy-six) had
written in earlier life four Latin tragedies, when Professor of
Humanities at Bordeaux, with Montaigne in his class.

{90} Defects in Lyric Poetry.

{91} Defects in Diction. This being written only a year or two
after the publication of "Euphues," represents that style of the day
which was not created but represented by the book from which it took
the name of "Euphuism."

{92} Nizolian paper-books, are commonplace books of quotable
passages, so called because an Italian grammarian, Marius Nizolius,
born at Bersello in the fifteenth century, and one of the scholars
of the Renaissance in the sixteenth, was one of the first producers
of such volumes. His contribution was an alphabetical folio
dictionary of phrases from Cicero: "Thesaurus Ciceronianus, sive
Apparatus Linguae Latinae e scriptis Tullii Ciceronis collectus."

{93} "He lives and wins, nay, comes to the Senate, nay, comes to
the Senate," &c.

{94} Pounded. Put in the pound, when found astray.

{95} Capacities of the English Language.
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