Haml. IV. v. 102.
Among the blank verse lines in Shakespeare’s plays there are sometimes interspersed examples of the native four-beat long line. This occurs, apart from lyrical passages, most frequently in the early plays, e.g. in Love’s Labour’s Lost and in The Comedy of Errors, III. i. 11–84, from which the following specimen is taken:
Ant. E. I thínk thou art an áss. |
Dro. E. Marry, só it doth appéar
By the wróngs I súffer | and the blóws I béar.
I should kíck, being kíck’d; | and, béing at that páss,
You would kéep from my héels | and bewáre of an áss.
Ant. E. You’re sád, Signior Bálthasar: | pray Gód our chéer
May ánswer my good wíll | and your good wélcome hére.