e been made and all due caution exercised, it will be
found that the indications of the versification corroborate and
supplement the external evidences in a valuable way.

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TABLE I

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| | | | | % | | % |
| | | | |BLANK | |SPEECHES|NO. OF
|TOTAL | | |PENTA-|VERSE | % |ENDING |LIGHT
|NO. OF| |BLANK |METER |W. FEM.|RUN-ON|WITHIN |AND WEAK
|LINES |PROSE |VERSE |RHYMES|ENDINGS|LINES |THE LINE|ENDINGS
------------+------+------+------+------+-------+------+--------+--------
L. L. L. | 2789 | 1086 | 579 | 1028 | 7.7 | 18.4 | 10.0 | 3
C. of E. | 1770 | 240 | 1150 | 380 | 16.6 | 12.9 | 0.6 | 0
T. G. V. | 2060 | 409 | 1510 | 116 | 18.4 | 12.4 | 5.8 | 0
R. III | 3599 | 55 | 3374 | 170 | 19.5 | 13.1 | 2.9 | 4
K. J. | 2553 | 0 | 2403 | 150 | 6.3 | 17.7 | 12.7 | 7
R. & J. | 3002 | 405 | 2111 | 486 | 8.2 | 14.2 | 14.9 | 7
M. N. D. | 2251 | 441 | 878 | 731 | 7.3 | 13.2 | 17.3 | 1
R. II | 2644 | 0 | 2107 | 537 | 11.0 | 19.9 | 7.3 | 4
Merch. | 2705 | 673 | 1896 | 93 | 17.6 | 21.5 | 22.2 | 7
1 Hy. IV | 3170 | 1464 | 1622 | 84 | 5.1 | 22.8 | 14.2 | 7
2 Hy. IV | 3437 | 1860 | 1417 | 74 | 16.3 | 21.4 | 16.8 | 1
M. W. W. | 3018 | 2703 | 227 | 69 | 27.2 | 20.1 | 20.5 | 1
Hy. V | 3320 | 1531 | 1678 | 101 | 20.5 | 21.8 | 18.3 | 2
M. Ado. | 2823 | 2106 | 643 | 40 | 22.9 | 19.3 | 20.7 | 2
J. C. | 2440 | 165 | 2241 | 34 | 19.7 | 19.3 | 20.3 | 10
A. Y. L. I. | 2904 | 1681 | 925 | 71 | 25.5 | 17.1 | 21.6 | 2
T. N. | 2684 | 1741 | 763 | 120 | 25.6 | 14.7 | 36.3 | 4
T. & C. | 3423 | 1186 | 2025 | 196 | 23.8 | 27.4 | 31.3 | 6
A. W. W. | 2981 | 1453 | 1234 | 280 | 29.4 | 28.4 | 74.0 | 13
Hml. | 3924 | 1208 | 2490 | 81 | 22.6 | 23.1 | 51.6 | 8
Meas. | 2809 | 1134 | 1574 | 73 | 26.1 | 23.0 | 51.4 | 7
Oth. | 3324 | 541 | 2672 | 86 | 28.1 | 19.5 | 41.4 | 2
Lear. | 3298 | 903 | 2238 | 74 | 28.5 | 29.3 | 60.9 | 6
Mcb. | 1993 | 158 | 1588 | 118 | 26.3 | 36.6 | 77.2 | 23
A. & C. | 3064 | 255 | 2761 | 4