[459]. See his references, Arbeit u. Rhythmus, p. 71.
[460]. Primitive Culture, I. 86.
[461]. Tacitus, Germania, c. 10. Liliencron u. Müllenhoff, Zur Runenlehre, Halle, 1852. Simple iteration, of course, is everywhere in charms: ter dices is the stage direction.
[462]. Grein-Wülker, Bibliothek, I. 317 ff.
[463]. D’Annunzio, following Baudelaire, revives repetition with considerable effect to make up for lack of rimes in his Elegie Romane. See p. 69, “Villa Chigi.”
[464]. By R. B. Gent. (Barnfield?), London, 1594, a rare book. See Barnfield’s own Hellens Rape, ed. by Grosart for the Roxburgh Club, 1876.
A gentle shepherd born in Arcady,
Of gentlest race that ever shepherd bore.
No small influence in introducing this kind of repetition is due to the imitations of classic verse, and the struggles of the Areopagus to expel the tyrant Rime. Compare Spenser’s own experiment: Now doe I nightly waste, quoted by Guest, English Rhythms, II. 270.