Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

"She ne'er saw Courts, but Courts could have undone

With untaught Looks and an unpractis'd Heart:

Her nets the most prepar'd could never shun;

For Nature spread them in the scorn of Art."—Davenant.

Or of eight; as,

"Had Echo with so sweet a Grace,

Narcissus loud Complaint return'd:

Not for Reflection of his Face,

But of his Voice the Boy had burn'd."—Waller.

Or of ten and eight, that is to say, the first and third of ten, the second and fourth of eight; as,