Here are four Monosyllables in this Verse,
??? d’ ??? ?? ??s?, p??? µ?? ?a? ???a? ?pe?se?.
Here are six Monosyllables, and one cutting off.
???’ ???, µ? µ’ ??????e, sa?te??? ?? ?e ???a?.
?? ?d? t? t’ ???ta, t? t’ ?ss?µe?a p?? t‘ ???ta.
Hom. Il. 1. l. 70.
Here are seven Monosyllables; yet so far is Virgil from being angry with his Master Homer on this Account, that he in a manner transcribes his very Words, imitating him as near as the Latin wou’d permit;
Quæ sint, quæ fuerint, quæ mox ventura trahantur.
Here is the whole Sense of Homer exprest, and five Monosyllables. But Mr. Dryden, who has exprest the Sense of Virgil with no less Accuracy, gives you the whole Line in Monosyllables;
He sees what is, and was, and is to come.