A History of English Versification

by J. Schipper

Wel láte he léteþ úfel wéorc | þe hit né may dón na máre.

Moral Ode, 128.

And thríes hádde sche bén | at Ierúsalém. Chauc. Prol. 463.

My wíll confírm | with the spírit of stéadfastnéss.

Wyatt, p. 220.

But thén we’ll trý | what these dástard Frénchmen dáre.

Shakesp. 1 Hen. VI, I. iv. 111.

It most frequently occurs, however, in the interior of the rhythmical sections, and there it is found in any of the feet, except the last, as will be seen by the following examples:

Intó þis ðhísternesse hér benéðen.

Gen. and Exod. 66.