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¯ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘
¯ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘,
¯ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘
˘ ¯ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘, ¯
¯ ˘ ˘, ¯ ˘
˘ ¯ ˘ ˘, ¯ ˘ etc.

Songs of Shepherds and rustical Roundelays,
Forms of Fancies and whistled on Reeds,
Songs to solace young Nymphs upon Holidays
Are too unworthy for wonderful deeds—
[[1019]] Round about, hornéd
Lucinda they swarméd,
And her they informéd,
How minded they were,
Each God and Goddess,
To take human Bodies
As Lords and Ladies to follow the Hare.

Now first published from an MS.

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A METRICAL ACCIDENT

Curious instance of casual metre and rhyme in a prose narrative (The Life of Jerome of Prague). The metre is Amphibrach dimeter Catalectic ˘ ¯ ˘ | ˘ ¯, and the rhymes antistrophic.

Then Jerome did call a
From his flame-pointed Fence; b
Which under he trod, c
As upward to mount d
From the fiery flood,—e