...ents did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall; The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. Spenser , in one of his letters to Harvey, had said, Why, a God's name, may not we, as else the Greeks, have the kingdom of our own language? This is in the tone of Bellay, as is also a great deal of what i...