"How gaudy Fate may be in Presents sent,
And creep insensible by Touch or Scent."—Oldham.
Nor a compound to its simple; as move to remove, taught to untaught, &c.
Nor the compounds of the same words to one another, as disprove to approve, and the like. All which proceeds from what I said before, viz., that the consonants that precede the vowels where the rhyme begins, must not be the same in sound, but different. In all which we vary from our neighbours; for neither the French, Italians, nor Spaniards, will allow, that a rhyme can be too perfect; and we meet with frequent examples in their poetry, where not only the compounds rhyme to their simples, and to themselves, but even where words written and pronounced exactly alike, provided they have a different signification, are made use of as rhymes to another. But this is not permitted in our poetry.
We must take care not to place a word at the middle of a verse that rhymes to the last word of it; as,
"So young in show, as if he still should grow."
But this fault is still more inexcusable, if the second verse rhyme to the middle and end of the first; as,
"Knowledge he only sought, and so soon caught,
As if for him Knowledge had rather sought."—Cowley.
"Here Passion sways, but there the Muse shall raise