...(he meaneth of the learned framing the newe Poets workes which writt the Sheepheardes Calender) 5 ' I scorne and spue out the rakehelly rout of our ragged...reason rage and fume, as if some instinct of poeticall spyrite1 had newlie rauished them aboue the meanesse of 10 common capacity. And beeing in the midst...

...(he meaneth of the learned framing the newe Poets workes which writt the Sheepheardes Calender) 5 ' I scorne and spue out the rakehelly rout of our ragged Rymers (for so themselues vse to hunLthg__Letter) which without learning boaste, without Judgment iangle, without reason rage and fume,...

...Phrases.), is E[dward] K[irk]s Epistle Dedicatory to Spenser's Shepheard's Calender: ' I scorne and spew out the rakehelly rout of our ragged rymers (for so themselues vse to hunt the letter).' — p. 28, ed. Grosart, and quoted by Webbe, Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586, p. 37, ed. Arber....

...Phrases.), is E[dward] K[irk]s Epistle Dedicatory to Spenser's Shep heard' s Calender: ' I scorne and spew out the rakehelly rout of our ragged rymers (for so themselues vse to hunt the letter).' — p. 28, ed. Grosart, and quoted by Webbe, Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586, p. 37, ed. Arber....

...Phrases.), is E[dward] K[irk]s Epistle Dedicatory to Spenser's Shepheard' s Calender: ' I scorne and spew out the rakehelly rout of our ragged rymers (for so themselues vse to hunt the letter).' — p. 28, ed. Grosart, and quoted by Webbe, Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586, p. 37, ed. Arber....

...simple, practical, sensible 1 ; of Sidney, the most charming of all ; of Webbe, an enemy to rime (" I scorne and spue out the rakehelly rout of our ragged rymers "), but, nevertheless, a great admirer of a " newe poet, Master Sp.," otherwise called Spenser 2 ;...

...framed, and strongly trussed vp together. In regard wherof, I scorne and spue out the rakehellye route of our ragged rymers (for so themselues vse to hunt the letter) which without learning boste, without iudgement iangle, without reason rage and fome, as if some instinct of Poeticall spirite...

...simple, practical, sensible 1 ; of Sidney, the most charming of all ; of Webbe, an enemy to rime (" I scorne and spue out the rakehelly rout of our ragged rymers "), but, nevertheless, a great admirer of a " newe poet, Master Sp.," otherwise called Spenser ' ;...

...in token of their good sffection to our Enlishe Malt." (ECE I, 246). Their art he holds in contempt: "the rakehelly rout of our ragged Rymers (for so themselues...rauished them aboue the meanesse of common capacity." (E.CJE. I, 247). A later writer complains that "the facilitie and popularitie of Rime creates as many...

...senceless sonets who. . .stuffe every stall full of grosse devises and unlearned Pamphlets', adding 'I scorne and spue out the rakehelly rout of our ragged Rymers'. The cleavage between Shakespeare, writing for performance and not for print, and Ben Jonson has already...