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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance

Note 554 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 6)

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So says the Parson, who adds:

Ne, God wot, rym holde I but litel bettre.

Parson's Prologue, l. 43. It will be observed that while naming simply rhyme, he caricatures alliteration.

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