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2do With impetuous recoil, and jarring found 2.

and Tlresils and Phineus, prophets eld 3.

and corpor.:al to Tncorpore^.l turn 5, 3tio More juftly, seat wor:h:er of gC-ds is built

Ato in sight of Gad's high throne glorlouny bright 3.

Before thv fellows, Jmbltious to win 6.

ammonian Jove or Capitollne w;^3 ften 9.

6v?r the vext Fbyfs, following tht tradl 10.

For that coj!ell:;;l light. Be it so, since He 1. In the fifth place I recolleft no inllance, but can conceive it in two cafes ;

1. After three Iambics and a paufe, then a 'T'rochee and a Daflylc;

2. After four Iambics and a paufe, then a Dactyle.

IX. Apharefis.

A word, which is an Iambic in found, mufl fuffer Apha^refis, rather ^an be (hortened to make the two firll fyilables of an Anapaft. Beaft now with beaft 'gan war, and fowl with fdwl 10.

X. Many like feet in the fame njsrfe.

A verfe will admit not only one, but fomecimes two, and fometimes three Trochees ; thus,

2. Troch. Miniftring fpTrlts, train'd up in feaft and fong 6.

3. Troch. Shoots Invifible virtue, e'en to the deep 3.

And likewife two or three Spondees ;

2. Spond. and the dire klfs renew'd, and the dire form 10.

3. Spond. Rocks, c.ves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and fhades of death

So alfo two or three Anapsefts ;

2. Anap. Celeftial, whether among the thrones or named 1 1.

3. Anap. O'er many a frozen many an airy alp 2.

I believe never more than two Pyrrhics, becaufe they generally re- quire to be mixt with fpondees, and would therefore leave no Iambic in the verfe.

Nor do I recoiled more than two Daftyles,

Little inferior by my adventure hard. 10.

XI. Many different fe it in the fame njerfe.

This has already appeared in feveral of the foregoing inftances, and fometimes leave only two, fometimes only one Iambic ;n a verfe : thus under obfervation X. we had a Daclyle, and two Trochees ; a Trochee, and two Spondees; and in the following, a Pyrrhic, a Spondee, a Trochee.

iind country wherof here needs no account 4.

Sometimes only one Iambic is left ; thus we had obfervation X. three Trochees and a Daclyle; and in the following, oneTrochee,-one Spondee, two Anapails.

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