The Iambic dimeter catalectic; better known by the anacreontic; of three feet and one femiped. The iambic dimeter acatalectic, of four feet. ūt prif | că gēns | mōrtā | lĭūm I 2 3 4 Hor. in thūn❘ der light | ning and| in räin The iambic dimeter hypercatalectic, the third measure in the alcaic verse, of four feet and a femiped. Nōn ǎ brō | ther's mūr | ther. Pray | i can | not I 2 3. Measure for Measure, A&t II. 4 Than beauty could | difplay'd. | But mark me But yet they could have wifht |--they knew not The iambic tremeter brachycatalectic, of five feet, which is our common heroic verfe. Suis et ip | fă Rō | mă vi | rībūs I 2 3 4 5 if thōu haft anỹ found | or use | of voice I 2 3 4 5 Ham. The iambic trimeter catalectic, of five feet and a femiped. Mea | rěni | dět în domō | lăcũ | nar I 2 3 4 5 Hor. But to be fafely thus | our fears | in Ban | quo I 9 3 4 5 Stick deep | ănd in | his rōy | ǎlty | ŏf nā | ture Verses of this measure are very frequent, both in Milton and Shakespeare. The iambic trimeter acatalectic, or 'fenarian of fix feet. Beatus ille qui | procul | négō | tïís I 2 3 4 5 6 Hor. In Measure for Measure, A& II. To have what we would have|wě speak | not what we mẽan 1 Shakespeare uses this measure frequently in Caliban's speeches, to make them feem more uncouth and affected. Our editors (for none of 'em seem to me to know any thing of measure) have turn'd them into profe. Tempeft, A&II. "These be fine things, and if they be not sprights. "I'll fwear upon that bottle, | to be thy true | subject; "For th' liquor is not earthly. [Step. Here fwear then. To Caliban giving him drink. How "escapest thou? To Trinculo.] "I've seen thee in her; and I do adore thee "My mistress fhew'd me thee and thy dog and thy bush. "I'll fhew thee ev'ry fertile inch o'th' Ifle "And I will kifs | thy foot | I pry | thee be | my God." Stephano's speech, which I have placed between two hooks, is thus printed in all the editions, " Here fwear then, how "escap'dft thou." Again Pistol, for the fame reafon, is made Othello. That can thy light|rělūlmine. Whenlï've plūck'd the rōse I 2 3 4 5 6 Theōs tentation ōf|öur lōve|which left unfhewn made to use this measure, which the editors knew not. In the Merry Wives of Windfor, Act II. Why then the world's I mine oyster | which I | with fword will open I will retort the fum in equipage. [He blunders, and means he will retrench. rous. the editors did not understand it.] This is humou In the fecond part of K. Henry IV. A& II. 66 Pift. I'll see her damn'd first : "To Pluto's damned lake, to the infernal deep, "Where Erebus and tortures vile also. "Hold hook and line, fay I down! down, dogs; down "Fates: [So this fuftian fhould have been printed.] He presently after repeats a piece of an old Ballad, and blunders in reciting an Italian proverb. They have corrected Piftol's blunders, which they think correcting the context] our bombaft ancient goes on. Pift. What, fhall we have incifion! fhall we enbrew "Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days: SHAKESPEARE uses not only the iambic, but the trochaic measure. As for example, the trochaic dimeter brachycatalectic, commonly called the ithyphallic, confifting of three trochees. Bacche | Bacche | Bacche whére haft thou been | sífter. I Macb. The trochaic dimeter catalectic; a fort of verfe Aristophanes was fond of, when he ridi "Why, then let grievous, ghaftly, gaping wounds "Untwine the fifters three: come, Atropos, I fay." In King Henry V. A& III. Pift. "Fortune is Bardolp's foe, and frowns on him ; 66. Thus 'tis manifeft at firft fight that it fhould be printed. -muft a be-this mode of expreffion is used now in many parts of England. And Phaer thus renders Virgil. VI, 590. Prob Jupiter! ibit Hic, ait, et noftris illuferit advena regnis ? "O God (quoth fhe) and shall a go "Indede ? and fhall a floute me thus within my king"doms, fo? B. Johnson. Poetafter, A&t III. Sc. II. "Hor. "Death! will a leve me." These alterations and hints may at present be fufficient. cul'd |