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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06

Note 18 — MARMOR NORFOLCIENSE:

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See his Remains, 1614, p. 337, "Riming verses, which are called versus leonini, I know not wherefore, (for a lyon's taile doth not answer to the middle parts as these verses doe,) began in the time of Carolus Magnus, and were only in request then, and in many ages following, which delighted in nothing more than in this minstrelsie of meeters."

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