[167] (a) From Heywood:—
(1) Octosyllabic principally:
And I to every soul again
Did give a beck them to retain,
And axèd them this question than,
If that the soul of such a womàn
Did late among them there appear?
(Four P's.)
But in close proximity such lines as
But Lord! how low the Souls made curtesy,
and
'Christ, help,' quoth a soul that lay for his fees,
make their appearance.
(2) Hawesian or Barclayan decasyllables staggering into Alexandrine or anapæstic doggerel: