And the first distance for the most part goeth all by distickt’~ or coi~ples of verses agreeing in one cadence, and do pass so speedily away and so often return again as their turn is never lost, nor out of the ear, one couple supplying another so ... suddenly. This proportion, Puttenham adds, is “the most vulgar [native] proportion of distance or situation employed by Chaucer in his Canterbury ta...
And the first distance for the most part goeth all by distickt’~ or coi~ples of verses agreeing in one cadence, and do pass so speedily away and so often return again as their turn is never lost, nor out of the ear, one couple supplying another so ... suddenly. This proportion, Puttenham adds, is “the most vulgar [native] proportion of distance or situation employed by Chaucer in his Canterbury ta...