Nor is there any analogy between the religious hymns, or the Fescennine verses of Italy, and the modern ballad.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The original Fescennine verse appears, from the testimony of Horace, to have been in metrical dialogue.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
From Suckling we should have had a bantering playfulness, or a Fescennine gaiety, equally unsuited to the subject.
"Lucasta"
Richard Lovelace