SHAKESPEARE ufes not only the iambic, but the trochaic measure. As for example, the trochaic dimeter brachycatalectic, commonly called the ithyphallic, confifting of three trochees.

Bacche Bacchě | Bacche

whére haft thou been | sífster.
1

Macb.

The trochaic dimeter catalectic; a fort of verse 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;

"For he hath ftoln a pax, and hanged must a be;
"Damn'd death! let gallows gape for dog, let man
66 go free."

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. Proh Jupiter! ibit

Hic, ait, et noftris illuferit advena regnis ?

"O God (quoth she) 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 prefent be fufficient.

cul'd

Sóftly fwéet in | Lydian | méafure
I

Macb.

Sóon he foóth'd his | foul to | pleasure. Dryd.

The trochaic tetrameter catalectic of fix feet, and clofing with a trochee and a femiped, what the Greeks call καλαλείς.

Ariftoph.

Τηδε, τῇ πόλει πρόσ, εἶναι ταῦτα, μὲν τοῦ τῆς θε, ες,

This dancing measure is very proper to the character of Polonius, a droll humourous old courtier; and the mixture of the trochaic has no bad effect. The verfes are thus to be ordered. In Hamlet, Act II.

As

As are companions noted and most known
To youth and liberty. R. As gaming my Lord.
P. Ay or drinking, fencing, fwearing, quarrelling,
drabbing, you may go

So far. R. My Lord, thou would difbonour him.

Nor is Shakespeare without inftances of the anapestic verse; which verfes confift of anapests, fpondees, dactyls; and fometimes is intermixed the pes proceleufmaticus; as

ὁ μὲν οἱ χομενος | φυγάς ὅ δὲ [ νεκυς ῶν. Eurip. Oreft.

The anapeftic monometer acatalectic, of two feet.

Sóftly fwéet in | Lydiän | méafure
Sóon he | foóth'd his | foul to | pléasure. D

The trochaic tetrameter catalectic of fix f and clofing with a trochee and a femiped, w the Greeks call κατακλείς.

Ariftoph.

Τηδε, τῇ πόλει πρόσ, εἶναι ταῦτα, μὲν τοῦ τῆς θες

This dancing measure is very proper to character of Polonius, a droll humourous courtier; and the mixture of the trochaic no bad effect. The verfes are thus to be dered. In Hamlet, Act II.

an exhibited before
'f poffible, the vo-
partly to do juftice
n dramatic poetry.
this attempt must
t it is to be remem-
we judge of them,
1 natures, indepen-
So that I except
k only from com-
hy, really 'tis juft
ifferent taftes now,
nodated to them."

his pitch of barba-
, before they can
I can hardly allow
ll rules in poetry;
roper is agreeable

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