Petrarch.

The English Petrarch. Sir Philip Sidney; so called by Sir Walter Raleigh. Cowper, styles him “the warbler of poetic prose.” (1554–1586.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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