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...will recall to the minds of some that fine saying of Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defence of Poesy " : "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice...