CHAPTER VIII.
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"If Chaucer, as has been said, is Spring, it is a modern, premature Spring, followed by an interval of doubtful weather.

Sidney is the very Spring--the later May.

And in prose he is the authentic, only Spring.

It is a prose full of young joy, and young power, and young inexperience, and young melancholy, which is the wilfulness of joy;.

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