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Familiar Quotations

Volume 1 / Part 2 — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

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1554-1586.

The Defense of Poesy.

He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.

I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.

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