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Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400

Note 36 — Chapter X · POETIC ACHIEVEMENT IN VERNACULAR

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The “heigh style” in the Squire’s joke may have the same reference.

Accordant to his wordes was his chere, As techeth art of speche hem that it lere. Albeit that I can nat soune his style, Ne can nat climben over so heigh a style, Yet seye I this, as to commune entente, Thus muche amounteth al that ever he mente. F. 103-108.

For dictamen see above, Chapter VIII.

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