And right so our vulgar riming Poesie, being by good wittes brought to that perfection we see, is worthily to be preferred before any other matter of vtterance in prose, for such vse and to such purpose as it is ordained, and shall hereafter be set downe more particularly.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
There is another sort of proportion used by Petrarche called the Seizino, not riming as other songs do, but by chusing sixe wordes out of which all the whole dittie is made, euery of those sixe commencing and ending his verse by course, which restraint to make the dittie sensible will try the makers cunning, as thus.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
7 Whence the riming Poesie came first to the Greekes and Latines, and how it had altered, and almost spilt their maner of Poesie.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham