Qhua sperd, scho said

5:7 p.

to Saint | Margret thai socht| Qhua ser wit hir. Full gret | frend schipe thai fand] With Sothran folk, for scho was of Ingland.

Wallace, 1. 283.

And next in order sad, old age wee found,
His beard all hoare]: his eyes | hollow and bleared],
With drouping chere still poring on the ground.

Sackville. M. for M. Induction, 43.

Thrice happy mother, and thrice happy morn,
That bore three such three such | not
|

I should be still

to be found.

F. Q. 4. 2. 41.

Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads:
And every object that might make me fear
Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt

Would make me sad. Salar.-My wind | cooling my broth
Would blow me to an ague, when I thought

What harm a wind too great might do at sea.

M. of Venice, 1. 1.

The lengthened section 7 l. p. is as common as the one we have been considering. It has been used by Shakespear as a complete verse.

If you dare fight to-day, come to the field,

If not when you have stomachs.

Jul. Cæs. 5. 1.

But it was the verse 71. p: 1 that spread it most widely through our literature. In this verse it was used by our dramatists, and by Milton: and may be traced far into the eighteenth century.

For the dearth

The Gods, not the patricians: make | it, and
Your knees to them, not arms must help.

Must I of force be married to the County,

No, no, this shall forbid | it: lie | thou there].

Your father were a fool

To give thee all, and in his waning age
Set foot under thy table: tut | a toy!

Cor. 1. 1.

Rom. and Jul. 4. 2.

Tam. of the Shrew, 2. 1.

One that dares

Do deeds worthly the hurdle: or | the wheel.

B. Jons. Cynthia's Revels, 3. 4.

More foul diseases than e'er yet the hot

Sun bred, thorough his burnings: while | the dog
Pursues the raging lion.

Whose veins like | a dull river: far | from springs]

Is still the same, dull, heavy, and unfit,

For stream or motion.

And to despise, or envy, or suspect,

Fl. Fa. Sheph. 1.2.

Fl. Fa. Sheph. 1. 2.

Whom God hath | of his special: favour rais'd|
As their deliverer.

Light the day and darkness night,

Sams.

He nam'd, thus I was the first | day: ev'n | and morn].

That all

The sentence, from thy head remov'd, may light

On me, the cause to thee, of all this woe,
Me, me only, just object: of | his ire.

P. L. 7.252.

P. L. 10. 936.

Me also he hath judg'd, or rather

Me not, but the brute serpent: in whose shape
Man I deceiv'd.

I go to judge

On earth these | thy transgressors: but
Whoever judg'd, the worst on me must light.

P. L. 10. 494.

thou know'st

P. L. 10.72.

Shall he nurs'd | in the Peasant's lowly shed,
To hardy independence bravely bred,
Shall he be guilty of these hireling crimes,

The servile mercenary, Swiss of rhymes ?

Burns' Brig of Ayr.

The following are instances of the same verse lengthened.

This ilke monk let olde thinges pace

And held af tir the new e: world the trace. Chau. Prol.

Light

Sprung from the deep; and from her native east

To journey through the aery gloom began,

Spher'd in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun
Was not; she | in a cloud|y: taberna|cle
Sojourn'd the while.

Wherever fountain or fresh current flow'd,

P. L. 7. 245.

I drank, from the fresh milky: juice | allaying
Thirst.

Samson Agon.

Surrey has given us an example of the verse 7 l. p : 5.

The fishes flete with newe repayred scale,

The adder all her slough away she flinges,
The swift | swallow pursu]eth: the flyles smale|·

Description of Spring.

These are the principal combinations in which the section 7 l. p. is met with. Others, however, have occasionally been found, more especially in the old English alliterative metre. Thus Dunbar, in his "Twa mariit women and the wedo," gives us an example of the verse 7 l. p: 2 l. I hard under ane hollyn: hewm|lie green hewit.

Such examples, however, are rare.

Dunbar.

Before I close a book, which treats thus fully of the rhythm of English verse, it may be expected that I should notice a series of works, which have been published during the last thirty years, on the same subject, by men, some of whose names are not unknown to the public. These writers entertain a very humble opinion of those "prosodians," "who scan English verse, according to the laws of Greek metre," and they divide our heroic line, not into five feet, but into six cadences! They are not, however, so averse to foreign terms, as might have been looked for. With them rhythm is rhythmus, and an elided syllable, an apogiatura. One of these critics assures us, that there are eight degrees of English quantity; and if the reader should "deny that there is any such thing as eight degrees of it, in our language, for this plain reason, because he cannot perceive them," it will be his duty to confide in the greater experience, and better educated ear

of those, who have paid more attention to the subject! I will not follow the example set by these gentlemen, when they speak of the poor "prosodian." It may be sufficient to say, that much which they advance, I do not understand, and much that I do understand, I cannot approve of.