Wórldly gládnes | is mélled wíth affráy.
Lydgate, Min. Poems, xxii, line 11.
Réigned óver | so mány péoples and réalms. Surrey, p. 135.
Such verses, however, may also be looked upon as instances of the omission of anacrusis combined with epic caesura.
This would be the only admissible explanation in verses the first accented word of which is a word which usually does not bear an accent or is not accented rhetorically, e.g.:
Óf the wórdes | that Týdeús had sáid.
Lydgate, St. of Thebes, line 1082.
Tó have líved | áfter the cíty táken. Surrey, p. 139.
But in a line with an emphasized first word inversion of rhythm is the more probable explanation: e.g.
Nát astónned, | nor ín his hérte afférde.