Henriquez, bleeding in me now,
From each good _Aspect_ takes away my trust.

And in another place,

You have an _Aspect_, Sir, of wondrous wisdom.

The word _Aspect_, you perceive, is here accented on the _first_ Syllable,
which, I am confident, in _any_ sense of it, was never the case in the
time of Shakespeare; though it may sometimes appear to be so, when we do
not observe a preceding _Elision_.

Some of the professed Imitators of our old Poets have not attended to this
and many other _Minutiae_: I could point out to you several performances in
the respective Styles of Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare, which the
_imitated_ Bard could not possibly have either read or construed.

This very accent hath troubled the Annotators on Milton. Dr. Bentley
observes it to be "a _tone_ different from the present use." Mr.
Manwaring, in his _Treatise of Harmony and Numbers_, very solemnly informs
us that "this Verse is defective both in Accent and Quantity, B. 3. V.
266.

His words here ended, but his meek _Aspect_
Silent yet spake.----

Here," says he, "a syllable is _acuted_ and _long_, whereas it should be
_short_ and _graved_"!

And a still more extraordinary Gentleman, one Green, who published a
Specimen of a _new Version_ of the _Paradise Lost_, into BLANK verse, "by
which that amazing Work is brought somewhat nearer the Summit of
Perfection," begins with correcting a blunder in the fourth book, V. 540:

----The setting Sun
Slowly descended, and with right _Aspect_--
Levell'd his evening rays.----

_Not so_ in the _New Version_:

Meanwhile the setting Sun descending slow--
Level'd with _aspect_ right his ev'ning rays.

Enough of such Commentators.--The celebrated Dr. Dee had a _Spirit_, who
would sometimes condescend to correct him, when peccant in _Quantity_: and
it had been kind of him to have a little assisted the _Wights_
above-mentioned.--Milton affected the _Antique_; but it may seem more
extraordinary that the old Accent should be adopted in _Hudibras_.

After all, the _Double Falshood_ is superior to Theobald. One passage, and
one only in the whole Play, he pretended to have written:

----Strike up, my Masters;
But touch the Strings with a religious softness:
Teach sound to languish thro' the Night's dull Ear,
Till Melancholy start from her lazy Couch,
And Carelessness grow Convert to Attention.

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