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Songs of Shepherds and rustical Roundelays, Forms of Fancies and whistled on Reeds, Songs to solace young Nymphs upon Holidays Are too unworthy for wonderful deeds-- Round about, hornéd Lucinda they swarméd, And her they informéd, How minded they were, Each God and Goddess, To take human Bodies As Lords and Ladies to follow the Hare.

Now first published from an MS.

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A METRICAL ACCIDENT

Curious instance of casual metre and rhyme in a prose narrative (The Life of Jerome of Prague). The metre is Amphibrach dimeter Catalectic ˘ ¯ ˘ | ˘ ¯, and the rhymes antistrophic.

Then Jerome did call a From his flame-pointed Fence; b Which under he trod, c As upward to mount d From the fiery flood,-- e

'I summon you all, a A hundred years hence, b To appear before God, c To give an account d Of my innocent blood!' e

July 7, 1826. Now first published from an MS.