The following Words, People, Substance, Angels, Chearful, and the like, are all Trochaick Feet; for it is easily observ'd, that the first Syllable dwells[page 70] longer on the Ear than the latter.
I wonder that Vossius, who was a Canon of Windsor, did not perceive this in the Metre which he could not but often have heard at Church.
"All People that on Earth do dwell
Sing to the Lord with chearful Voice.
Suppose these two Lines were alter'd thus,
"All ye People that on Earth dwell,
Sing to the Lord with Voice chearful.
Here the natural Sound of the Words People and Chearful is very much alter'd, by their being wrong plac'd; or rather, the Verse is quite destroy'd: But to chuse an Example from Milton.
"And if our Substance be indeed Divine.————
Let this be alter'd,