Quote#Poetry
I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes…
Quote byGeorge Gascoigne · 1525–1577
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Certayne Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Ryme in English", from The Posies; pp. 457-8..
English (original)
I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne.
— George Gascoigne
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