...long gown maketh an advocate, who, though he pleaded in armour, should be an advocate and no soldier;) but it is that feigning notable images of virtues,...which must be the right describing note to know a poet by.147 Sidney was a member of Gray's Inn, a poet and a soldier. He died in 1586 of wounds received...

...maketh an advocate, who, though he pleaded in armour, should be an advocate and no soldier;) but it is feigning notable images of virtues, vices, or what...which must be the right describing note to know a poet by'.11 The aptness of the figure lies in the rhetorical skills, the arts of persuasion which the poet...

...a long gown maketh an advocate who though he pleaded in armor should be an advocate and no soldier. But it is that feigning notable images of virtues,...must be the right describing note to know a poet by. The poet's work, says Sidney, is as immutable a principle of identity as that of the lawyer who even...