And nu|tes amig|deles | thoron|ne numen.
(Genesis and Exodus, 3840 (c. 1250).)
(c) In couplet:
And swore | by Je|su that | made moon | and star
Agenst | the Sara|cens he | should learn | to war.
(Richard Cœur de Lion, 2435-36 (before 1325?).)
(d) Overflow of octosyllable into decasyllable; probably, in the first place, from the equivalenced lines lending themselves to another run:
The bugh|es er | the ar|mes with | the handes,
And the | legges, | with the | fete | that standes.
(In Hampole's Prick of Conscience, 680, 681
(before 1350), with scores of others.)
XI. Later Middle English Period
The Alliterative Revival—Pure.
The examples of this revival (see [Book II].) cannot, of course, in their nature, be strictly scanned. But it is important to bring out the change of rhythm as compared with the older examples (v. sup. p. [37]).