Amphimacer, - u - = ōvĕr hīll.
Antibacchius, u - = thĕ Lōrd Gōd.
Bacchius, - - u = Hēlvēllȳn.
Molossus, - - - = Jōhn Jāmes Jōnes.
These simple feet may suffice for understanding the metres of Shakespeare, for the greater part at least;—but Milton cannot be made harmoniously intelligible without the composite feet, the Ionics, Pæons, and Epitrites.
Ib. sc. 2. Titania's speech (Theobald, adopting Warburton's reading):—
“Which she, with pretty and with swimming gate
Follying (her womb then rich with my young squire)
Would imitate,” &c.
Oh! oh! Heaven have mercy on poor Shakespeare, and also on Mr. Warburton's mind's eye!