xiv. 111. Come, Sússex, ⊼ let's ín we sháll have móre.
The missing arsis is supplied by the pause that succeeds a command. With different punctuation we have '⋀ Cóme! | Sússex, let's ín,' which is as good. The editors keep Lacie talking.
(c) In the third foot, lacking thesis:—
ix. 229. And gíve us cátes ⋀ fit for coúntrey swáines.
If the emperor did not pause for language suitable to the emergency, it was because he pronounced 'cates' as a dissyllable. Cf. Marlowe's Faustus (Dyce ed. 1850, p. 211), "Pardon me sweet, ⋀ Í forgot myself."
ix. 144. How nów, ⋀ Vándermást! have you mét with your mátch?
Pause for surprise. If the pause should fall before 'have' it would indicate the transition to inquiry. In this and the next instance anapæstic compensation is prominent.
ix. 148. Why Vándermast, ⋀ árt thou óvercóme?
But it is rhetorically more natural to read: '⋀ Whý ⋀ Vándermást, art thou óvercóme?'
(d) In the fourth foot, lacking thesis:—