(Piers Plowman).
and
Hā́m and hḗahsetl | héofena rī́ces (Gen. 3ccc3).
Scḗop þā and scýrede | scýppend ū̀re (ibid. 65).
[120] This alliterative-rhyming long line is scanned by the contemporary metrist King James VI in the manner indicated by the accents.
[121] The second of these lines is thus marked by Gascoigne as having four stresses.
[122] We retain the MS. reading; see Sievers, Altgerm. Metrik, p. 17.
[123] Horstmann, Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge, p. 244.
[124] Percy’s Reliques, I. ii. 7.
[125] Quoted in Chambers’s Cyclop. of Eng. Lit., i. 242.