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The Early Seventeenth Century

Restoration and Eighteenth Century
 
 
 

Hope College 
Lit to 1775 Resource Page
English 270
Prof. Curtis Gruenler
Fall 2002
 

Katie Klein & Shannon Chiesa

 Part I is Identifications
 15 points each. For four of the following quotations below, please identify the  author, title, and date of the work it comes from and discuss the significance of the  passage in the context of the work it comes from. You may also discuss its significance  in wider contexts of literary and other history, but that is not necessary. Do not mererly  restate the passage in your own words, but discuss how it is important to matters of  theme, form, style, character, etc.

   Spring 2002 Midterm

1. If you will listen to my lay but a little while,
As I heard it in hall, I shall hasten to tell
anew.
   As it was fashioned featly
   In tale of derring-do,
   And linked in measures meetly
   By letters tried and true.

2. The pruddest [proudest] of these riotoures three
Answere again, "What, carl [fellow] with sory grace,
Why artou al forwrapped [muffled up] save they face?
Why livestou so longe in so greet age?"

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