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■where inftead of the ligitimate word p, fan, which did not anfwer the 

 rhime, we have the adfcititious word 13 bar, of the Chaldee, becaufe 

 it aflbned to lya^ jibar ; though, when the rhime did not demand the 

 change, as in verfe 7. the word p, fon, hath been retained : and in 

 the Exodial fong of Mofes v. 29. he obferves on the correfted words 

 one jerefcham, " fenfus hie, obfervato ofw.oT.-^si;™ levi mutatione commo- 

 " diffimus eft : quod eft verfuum Hebraicorum tb o^olOTE^sI;Ta non Icve argu- 

 " mentum, ut oftendemus in Diatribd de Poetica Hebraorum." But it 

 is not thefe hymns only, and the pfalms, that are found to rhime : Le 

 Cierc has made the fame fuccefsful experiment on other parts of the 

 facred poetry. I fliall feleft a Ihort fpecimen from the " Eflai" : Le 

 Clerc's own comments upon which may there be found. It is a part of 

 the fecond pfalra ; and the " Eflai", as might well be expelled, drew 

 on its author an hoft of adverfaries. But it fliews with what fort of 

 fpirit his objeftors replied, when the great Pfalmanaazar produces the 

 thirty-fourth pfalm, whofe 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, and 13th verfes he gives 

 us with all their rhimes, and then triumphantly adds, they are " acci- 

 dental only and inevitable", fo inevitable indeed, that Le Clerc had 

 anticipated the very objeftion ; and Pfalmanaazar himfelf, as noticed 

 above, had remarked, that fuch was the perpetual recurrence of the 

 rhime, it had been difficult to write a poem in that language that fliould 

 not be compofed all in rhime. 



Eth mosrothe MO 



Venaschliche niimmennou, abothe MO, 



Joscheb baschamajim jisch AK. 



Adonei jilaAG 



La MO 



Az jedabber ele MO 



Bappho oubacharono jebahale MO. 



Rhime 



