[500] "Complete Works," vol. iii. The poem was left unfinished; it is written in octosyllabic couplets, with four accents or beats.
[501] Compare, for example, the beginning of "Hous of Fame," and No. 487 of The Spectator (Sept. 18, 1712):
God turne us every dreem to gode!
For hit is wonder, by the rode,
To my wit what causeth swevenes
Either on morwes or on evenes;
And why the effect folweth of somme,
And of somme hit shal never come;
Why this is an avisioun,
And this a revelacioun ...
Why this a fantom, these oracles.
Addison writes: "Tho' there are many authors who have written on Dreams, they have generally considered them only as revelations of what has already happened in distant parts of the world, or as presages of what is to happen in future periods of time," &c.
[502] l. 1191.
[503] l. 1242.
[504] l. 1830.
[505] l. 2047.
[506] l. 2078. Cf. La Fontaine's "Les Femmes et le Secret."
[507] "Parlement of Foules," l. 186.