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Some Longer Elizabethan Poems

Note 1 — INTRODUCTION

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Ben Jonson (Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden) took exception to the opening lines:—

'He scorned such verses as could be transponed— Where is the man that never yett did hear Of faire Penelope, Ulisses Queene? Of faire Penelope Ulisses Queene, Wher is the man that never yett did hear?'

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