Philip Sidney

like the Sound of a Trumpet; it is only Nature that can have this Effect, and please those Tastes which are the most unprejudiced or the most refined.

[I]

must however beg leave to dissent from so great an Authority as that of Sir

Philip Sidney

, in the Judgment which he has passed as to the rude Stile and evil Apparel of this antiquated Song; for there are several Parts in it where not only the Thought but the Language is majestick, and the Numbers

sonorous;

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at least, the

Apparel