With weeping Eyes she heard th' unwelcome News.Dryd.
And it is a fault to make The and the first Syllable of the following word two distinct Syllables, as in this,
Refrain'd a while by the unwelcome Night.Wall.
A second sort of Hiatus, and that ought no less to be avoided is, when a Word that ends in a Vowel that cannot be cut off, is plac'd before one that begins by the same Vowel, or one that has the like Sound; as,
Should thy Iambicks swell into a Book.Wall.
The second Rule is, to contract the two last Syllables of the Preterperfect Tenses of all the Verbs that will admit of it; which are all the Regular Verbs whatsoever, except only those ending in D or T, and DE or TE. And it is a fault to make Amazed of three Syllables, and Loved of two; instead of Amaz'd of two, and Lov'd of one.
And the second Person of the Present and Preterperfect Tenses of all Verbs ought to be contracted in like manner; as thou lov'st, for thou lovest, &c.
The third Rule is, not to make use of several Words in a Verse that begin by the same Letter; as,
The Court he knew to steer in Storms of State.
He in these Miracles Design discern'd. Dav.
Yet we find an Instance of such a Verse in Dryden's Translation of the first Pastoral of Virgil;