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 only exception is that, in Trochaics of this character:

where they rhyme, as here, in quatrains, I have usually rhymed them in couplets.

Dean Trench has, in his Calderon, some most excellent remarks on this subject, to which I would refer the reader.

And to what is there said, must he added the terrible loss thereby sustained through the loss of the original melodies. Many of the modern books, for instance, oblige him that employs them, for example, in the beautiful Jesu dulcis memoria, to forego the exquisite Sarum Christmas melody to which it was sung as a hymn in the old English Church:—and the still more exquisite sequence melody to which it belonged when a prose:—a melody which I have heard every Sunday after evening service for more than six years, and love more dearly every time I do hear it. He cannot sing the Ad Cœnam Agni providi to its own noble tune: nor, as I have said, the Alleluiatic Sequence: and so of several others. It