"The reader, turning the pages of this book, will find this note of valiancy—of the old Roman ‘virtue’ mated with cheerfulness—dominant throughout, if in many curious moods. He may trace it back, if he care, far behind Chaucer to the rudest beginnings of English Song. It Is indigenous, proper to our native spirit, and it will endure."
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Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1918 (1939), Preface to New Edition
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