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Historical Manual of English Prosody

Note 136 — Chapter I · BEFORE 1700

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No wight | in this | world that | wealth can | attain.

But then it would not be "another kind of metre." The remark is not without bearing on the suggested possibility of Spenser's "February" being mistaken heroic.

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