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Show AUG MI ™ ASR Our iambick meafure comprifes verfe Nor gate nor bars exclude the bufy trade. *T'is built of brafs, the better to diffuf The {preading founds, and multiply the news Where echoes in repeated echoes play A mart for ever full ; and open night and day Or things as rare To call you's loft Yor all the cof Nor filence is within, nor voice exprefs But a deaf noife of founds that never ceafe can beltow So poorly tho Upon your praife ‘That all the way Senfe hath, come fthort Confus'd and chiding, like the hollow roa ; Of tides, receding from th' infulted fhore Or like the broken thunder, heard from far Drayton With ravith'd ear The monarch hears When Jove to diftance drives the rolling war The courts are fill'd with a tumultuous di Of crowds, or iffuing forth, or ent'ring in A thorough-fare of news ; where fome devif Things never heard, fome mingle truth with lies Diryden Of fix The troubled air with empty founds they beat Intent to hear, and eager to repeat Dryden This while we are abroad Shall we not touch our lyre Shall we not fing an ode Shall that holy fire In us that ftrongly glow'd In this cold air expire In all thef meafure the accent are to be placed on eve fyllables; and every line confidered.by itfelf is more harmo nious, as this rule is more ftri¢tly obferved 'The variations ne ceflary to pleafure belong to the art of poetry, not the rules o grammar Though in the utmoft Pea A while we do remain Amongft the mountains bleak Expos'd to fleet and rain No {port our hours fhall break To exercife our vein Our trochaick meafures ar i Of three fyllables i Here we ma "Think and pray Before deat Stops our breath What though bright Pheebus' beam Refrefh the fouthern ground And though the princely Thame With beauteous nymphs abound And by old Camber's ftream Be many wonders found Other joy Are but toys Walton's dngler Of five In the days of old Stories plainly told Lovers felt annoy Yet many rivers clear Here glide in filver {wathes And what of all moft dear Buxton's delicious baths h O/d Ballad £ Of Hfeven Faireft piece of well-form'd earth Urge not thus your haughty birth Strong ale and noble chear T' affivage breem winter's {cathes In places far or near Or famous O M A thoufand crannies in the wdlls are made Of four fyllables Moft good, moft fair Word O or obfcure In thefe meafure {yllables th accen Waller is to be placed on the od ‘Where wholfom is the air Or where the moft impure All times, and every where ‘The mufe is ftill in ure Drayten Thefe are the meafures which are now in ufe, and above the reft thofe o feven, eight, and ten fyllables Our ancient poets wrote verfes fometimes q twelve fyllables, as Drayton's Polyolbion Of all the Cambrian fhires their heads that bear fo high And farth'ft furvey their foils with an ambitious eye, ‘Of eight, which is the ufual meafure for fhort poems And may at laft my weary ag Mervinia for her hills, as for their matchlefs crowds The neareft that are faid to kifs the wand'ring clouds Efpecial audience craves, offended with the throng Find out the peaceful hermitage "The hairy gown, and mofly cell Where I may fit, and nightly {pel Of ev'ry ftar the ky doth fhew And ev'ry herb that fips the dew That ¢he of all the reft negle¢ted was fo long Alleging for herfelf, when through the Saxon's pride The godlike race of Brute to Severn's fetting fid Were cruelly inforc'd, her mountains did reliev Thofe whom devouring war elfe every where did grieve And when all Wales befide (by fortune or by might Unto her ancient foe refign'd her ancient right A conftant maiden ftill fhe only did remain The laft her genuine laws which ftoutly did retain And as each one is prais'd for her peculiar things So only fhe is rich in mountains, meres, and fprings And holds herfelf as great in her fuperfluous wafte Milton Of ten, which is the common meafure'of heroick and tragic poetry Full in the midft of this created fpace Betwixt heav'n, earth, and fkies, there ftands a plac Confining on all three ; with triple bound Whence all things, though remote, are view'd around And thither bring their undulating found "The palace of loud Fame, her feat of pow'r Plac'd on the fummit of a lofty tow'r A thoufand winding entries long and wid Receive of frefh reports a flowing tide As others by their towns and.fruitful tillage grac'd And of fourteen, as Chaéman's Homer And as the mind of fuch a man, that hath a long way gone And either knoweth not his way, or elfe would ket alon His purpos'd journey, is diftradt Th meafures of twelve and fourteen fyllables were often mingle by 0u old poets, fometimes ip alternate lines, and fometimes in alternate wuplgzt&'r.h- |