This table at the same time also contains the formal exposition, and indeed possibly the actual explanation (by suppression of the thesis following the epic caesura), of such lines as may be regarded as lines with lyric caesura, and are identical with these in regard to rhythm and number of syllables. To this class belong the forms given under 10, 12, 14, and 16.
The following examples will serve to illustrate these sixteen types:
I. Principal Types.
1. A kníght ther wás, | and thát a wórthy mán. Prol. 43.
2. What schúlde he stúdie, | and máke himsélven wóod? ib. 184.
3. But thílke téxt | held hé not wórth an óystre. ib. 182.
4. To Cáunterbúry | with fúl devóut coráge. ib. 22.
II. With Initial Truncation.
5. Úpon whích | he wíl auénged bé.