Crossword-Solution: RIMES 5 letters, 73 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Poetry is not the strong point of the text, and I shrink from any title that might seem to claim that quality; otherwise we might have ‘Nursery Muses’ or ‘New Songs of Innocence’ (but that were a blasphemy), or ‘Rimes of Innocence’: the last not bad, or—an idea—‘The Jews’ Harp,’ or—now I have it—‘The Penny Whistle.’ THE PENNY WHISTLE: NURSERY VERSES BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

But what am I talking of? What are these things to you, if ye have not first heard True Thomas's Rime, which is the beginning and end o' all things? "I have heard no rime" said the man, "save the sacred psalms o' God's Kirk." "Bonny rimes" said the bird.

Courteous Reader, there was no Argument at first intended to the Book, but for the satisfaction of many that have desired it, I have procur'd it, and withall a reason of that which stumbled many others, why the Poem Rimes not.

The dreams of a god Are the worlds of his slaves: I will be my own god, And rule my own knaves! He went on in this way for some minutes; then the rimes grew less perfect, and the utterance sank into measured prose.

The abbe de Ganges, who bore that title without belonging to the Church, had assumed it in order to enjoy its privileges: he was a kind of wit, writing madrigals and ‘bouts-rimes’ [Bouts-rimes are verses written to a given set of rhymes.] on occasion, a handsome man enough, though in moments of impatience his eyes would take a strangely cruel expression; as dissolute and shameless to boot, as though he had really belonged to the clergy of the period.