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As soon I as sun | beams could | peep out | once fro the | mountains, 

 And by- the | dawn of the | day had | somewhat | lighted | Olfmpus, 



And this other effort of the third line in Homer's firfl Odyffey, 



Qui mores hominum multorura vidit et urb«s. 



" All trave | lers do re I port great | praTfe of U | lyfles, 



For that he | knew many | men's man ] ners, and | saw many | cities.'' 



This, we are told, is " trew verfifying" ; Dr. Afcham declaring, " it 

 " was not made at the _^r/i more naturalie in the Greke by Homere, 

 " nor afterward turned more aptelie into Latine by Horace, than trant 

 " lated into Englifli roundlie by myne old friend Mr. Watfon," who, 

 fans double, is muche obliged to his old friend Doftor Afcham for 

 having fo carefullie preferved this trewlie delicioufe morfelle. But this 

 illegitimate and mongrel fort of verfe has not, I believe, been at- 

 tempted in the European tongues, {mcc the fixteenth century, and I truft 

 will never be revived, notwithftanding the fage admonition of our old 

 friend Horace, " vos exemplaria Grceca." 



As Figliucci was the iirft who recommended the ancient quantities to 

 modern language, (for it was not altogether fo new a conceit, that the 

 Greek and Roman meafure was unknown to England in the twelfth 

 century, the Ormin having been compofed in tetrameter iambics,) fo he 

 was the firft v/ho condemned rhime as of barbarous invention.* Blanks 



verfe, 



* About twenty or thirty years before Figliucci's Commentaries appeared, viz. anno 

 1524, Giovanni Rucellai printed at Rome a poem called Le Apt, " which," fays Mr. 

 Rofco, " will remain a lading monument that the Italian language requires not the 

 ftiackles of rhime to render k harmonious." 



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