How are you join'd with hell in triple knot, : Ah! froward Clarence : how evil it | beseems | thee Comus. 3 Н 6, 4. 7. Farewell my eagle! when thou flew'st whole armies Have stoop'd | below | thee: at pas sage I have seen thee Fl. Loyal Subj. 1. 3. Byron has given us one instance of the verse 51: 5. but rather through negligence than of set purpose; I see before me the gladiator lie]. Childe H. 4. 51: 6. is very rare. It prevailed chiefly in the 15th century; Schyr Ranald Crawford: beho|wide that tyme | be thar], Wallace, 4. 5. Verses beginning with 5 ll. are occasionally found in Chaucer, and are not unfrequent in our dramatists. Massinger particularly affected this double lengthening of the first section. 5ll: 1. They teach their teachers with their depth of judgment, And are with arguments a ble to convert The enemies of our Gods. Mass. Virg. Martyr, 1. J. When that the Knight had thus his tale told : In all the compaynie n'as | ther yong ne old], Chau. The Milleres Prol. It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee, Who never promiseth but | he means | to pay. : 1 H 4, 5. 4. To meet | Northumberland and | the Prelate Scroop. Same, 5. 5. Verses beginning with the sections 6. and 67. were certainly used by Chaucer; though, in the present condi tion of his works, it is difficult to say to what extent. They were very common in the century, which succeeded his death, but in the 16th century fell rapidly into disfavour. They are found but rarely even in the plays of our dramatists, though I suspect that Shakespeare's editors have silently corrected the rhythm of many verses, which, as Shakespeare wrote them, contained the obnoxious section. The rare occurrence of these verses in Anglo-Saxon is matter of some surprise. 6:1. Me lifes onlah se | this leoht | onwrah Rhiming Poem. 6:2. And as he was wont whis|tered in | mine eare]. M. for M. Kg. James 1. Was not Richard of whom I spake before A rebell playne untill his father dyed, To Richarde againe] : and | for a rebell tried ? Off cornekle qhuat suld I tarry long, To Wallace agayne] now briefly will I gang. Wallace. : Yet are mo fooles of this abusion, Whiche of wise men despiseth the doctrine, With mowes, mockes, scorne and collusion, Rewarding rebukes for their | good discipline]. : Barclay. Schip of Foles. On Hollyrood day: the gallant Hotspur there, At Holmedon met. Lord Marshall command] : our of ficers | at arms,* Be ready to direct these home alarmes. R 2, I. 1. 6: 6. is only found in very loose metre, like that of the tumbling verse; *Fol. Ed. 1623. In the modern Editions the word Lord is omitted. Hereafter by me my successors may | beware. M. for M. Kg. James 6. Preserve the red rose and be his protection. Same. Verses beginning with the section 67. are occasionally met with, but rarely after the middle of the 16th century. 67: 1. I wonder this time of the yere Whennes that swete savour cometh so, Chau. The second Nonnes Tale. O heartless fooles haste here to our doctrine, For here | shall I shewe | you good | and veritie], Barclay. Schip of Foles. His soldiers spying his undaunted courage, A Talbot, a Talbot cried out | amain]. 61:2. It also proved full often is certayne, 1 H 6, 1. 1. That they that on mockers: al way their min des cast', Barclay. Schip of Foles. 61: 5. Take ye example by Cham the son of Noy, Which laughed his father: un to derision], Which him after cursed: for his | transgression. Barclay. Schip of Foles. Verses beginning with the sections 9: 97. are sometimes, though rarely, met with in our dramatists. : 9:5. We may boldly spend upon | the hope of what| Is to come in. The people of Rome, for whom we stand, A special party have by common voice, H 4, 3. 1. In election for the Roman Em|pery, In a chariot of inestimable value. Tell him, if he will, 97:17. Tit. And. 1. 1. Pericles, 2. 4. He shall ha' the gro|grans: at the rate | I told him. B. Jons. E. M. in his Humour, 2. 1. 10 5. is a regular verse of the triple measure. CHAPTER V. WE have now to consider those verses of five accents, which have three accented syllables in the first section; and shall begin with observing upon certain peculiarities of their rhythm; more especially such as distinguish them from the class of verses, we have just passed under review. swers. There was, at one time, much vague and unprofitable speculation as to the best position of the middle pausean indeterminate problem, which admits of several anGascoigne thought the pause would be "best placed" after the fourth syllable; King James preferred the sixth. The latter objects specially to the fifth, because it is "odde, and everie odde fute is short." Johnson's objection to the middle pause, when it follows an unaccented syllable, has been already noticed; he would tolerate it when the sense was merely suspended, but not when it closed a period. There are certainly many sentences, which ought to end with a full and strongly marked rhythm; and, as certainly, others in which a feeble ending, so far from a defect, may be a beauty. I consider it a beauty in the very verse which Johnson has quoted to prove it the contrary; He with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd, rolling in the fiery gulph When we are told, that such " a period leaves the ear unsatisfied," we must remember, that Johnson's ear was educated to admire the precise, but cold and monotonous |