"Tytyre te patulæ cecini sub tegmine fagi.
Where the two several Hemisticks or Parts of the Verse Rhyme each to itself.
I would observe here that both Ovid and Lucan, for want of Judgment, begin with a full Rhyme; the consequence of which is, that the Conclusion of the Paragraph is less sonorous than the Beginning, which must needs have a bad Effect.
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"In nova fert animus mutatas discere formas.
Ovid.
"Bella per Æmathios plus quam Civilia Campos.
Lucan.
But a modern Writer, and a much better Composer of Latin Verses than either Ovid or Lucan, has with great Judgment taken care to follow Virgil's Example in this and many other Particulars. I mean Vanerius. There are a great Number of Lines in his Prædium Rusticum which are worthy of Virgil himself: I shall entertain you with some of them.