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 Again,

And fince we are a united Nation, and he as great a Poet, confidering his time, as this Island hath produced, I will with due Veneration for his Memory, beg leave to cite the learned and noble Prelate, Gawen Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld in Scotland, who in his Preface to his judicious and accurate Translation of Virgil, p. 4. says,

Again, p. 5.

But before, at least contemporary with Chaucer, we find Sir John Gower, not baulking Monofyllables;