Excerpt from Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes, 1563 Chaucer to our own day. Not that great or even confiderable Poets have overlapped one another in a continuous fuoceflion but there have never wanted thol'e who, according to the gift that was in them, have perpetually reprefented by their Song, beauty of expreflion, refinement of ideas, ethereality of fancy, vigour of fatire, or the paflion and merriment of human life. During no portion of this time has England been wholly deftitute of true Poetry, or barren of real makers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.