The gods of the Gentiles were honoured by their Poetes in hymnes, which is an extraordinarie and diuine praise, extolling and magnifying them for their great powers and excellencie of nature in the highest degree of laude, and yet therein their Poets were after a sort restrained: so as they could not with their credit vntruly praise their owne gods, or vse in their lauds any maner of grosse adulation or vnueritable report.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
Aldhelm's great work, and the work which most conveys his interpretation of the spiritual conditions of his time, is his book, "De laude Virginitatis," in praise of Celibacy.
"Anglo-Saxon Literature"
John Earle
After Lucilius succeded Horacius, moche more eloquent in wrytynge whiche in the same deseruyd great laude: Persius also left to vs onely one boke by the whiche he commyttyd his name and laude to perpetuall memory.
"The Ship of Fools, Volume 1"
Sebastian Brandt