Cervantes [wrote](https://people.duke.edu/%7Egarci/garcitextos/bilingues/CERVANTES-MD/NOVELAS-EJEMPLARES/COLOQUIO-PERROS.HTM) satirically of a poet who had written— > "that part of the history of King Arthur of England which > Archbishop Turpin left unwritten, together with the history of the quest of the Holy Grail; > and all in heroic verse, part in rhymes and part in blank verse; but entirely dactylically—I > mean in dactylic noun substantives, without admitting any verb whatsoever." I...
