Or as in the following Stanza, where the 4th and 5th Verses rhyme to each other, and the 3d and 6th;
While what I write I do not see,
I dare thus ev'n to you write Poetry,
Ah foolish Muse! that dost so high aspire,
And know'st her Judgment well,
How much it does thy Pow'r excell;
Yet dar'st be read by thy just Doom the Fire.Cowl.
(Written in Juice of Lemon.
But in some of these Stanzas, the Rhymes follow one another; as,
Take heed, take heed, thou lovely Maid,
Nor be by glitt'ring Ills betray'd:
Thy self for Money! Oh! let no Man know
The Price of Beauty fall'n so low:
What dangers oughtst thou not to dread
When Love that's blind, is by blind Fortune led?Cowl.
Lastly, some of these Stanzas are compos'd of 2 Triplets; as,
The Lightning, which tall Oaks oppose in vain,
To strike sometimes does net disdain
The humble Furzes of the Plain.
She being so high, and I so low,
Her Pow'r by this does greater show,
Who at such Distance gives so sure a Blow.Cowl.
SECT. IV.
Of the Stanzas of 8 Verses.
I have already said, that the Italians compose their Heroick Poems in Stanzas of 8 Verses, where the Rhyme is dispos'd as follows; the 1st, 2d, and 5th Verses rhyme to one another, and the 2d, 4th, and 6th, the two last always rhyme to each other. Now our Translators of their Heroick Poems have observ'd the same Stanza and Disposition of Rhyme; of which take the following Example from Fairfax's Translation of Tasso's Goffredo, Cant. 1. Stan. 3d.