O, hor|rible! | O, hor|rible! | most hor|rible!
and a fragment of two feet and a half—
All my | smooth bo|dy.
If studied in this way, even the scenes where short speeches of the conversational kind form the staple will be found to piece themselves together perfectly well in continuous scansion.
FOOTNOTES:
[31] More will be found on this and the origin of other metres in Bk. IV.
[32] Or possibly
Hwi nul|tu fa|re to | Nor[e]weie,
which is more likely as to "farè" ("farè[n]"), and looks forward to the fashion in which we now say "Norway," but "Galloway." The remark will extend to not a few other scansions.
[33] For origin and explanation see [Glossary].