There have been many most excellent poets that never versif… - Philip Sidney

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There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Philip Sidney

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Sir Philip Sidney (November 30 1554 – October 17 1586) was an English courtier, soldier, poet and romancer. He was a friend and patron of Edmund Spenser, whose poetry he deeply influenced. During his own lifetime he attracted extraordinary admiration throughout Europe as the model of a Christian knight and chivalrous gentleman.

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Poetry, a speaking picture... to teach and delight

Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound,
And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found.
Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight,
Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight.

With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets. - Philip Sidney

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