rary to the common Measure_, or rather without any
Measure at all, _viz._

"_Quod fieri ferro, liquidove potest electro,
Saxa per & scopulos & depressas convalles._

IX, X, XI. These are the three Articles formerly mentioned, namely,
the _Alliteratio_, the _Allusio Verborum_, and the _Assonantia
Syllabarum_.

1. As to the _Alliteratio_. This is of several Kinds, it is _Initial_,
_Single_ and _Double_; sometimes _Treble_, or more frequent. It is
likewise _Mix'd_, that is, both in the first Letters of the Words, and
in the following Syllables. It is sometimes so often repeated, that it
may be term'd _Assultus_, or an Attack upon, or a storming of the Ear.

The following are Examples of the _Single Alliteratio_.

"_Quid faciat laetas_ segetes, _quo_ sidere _terram_
Vertere, _Maecenas_, _ulmisque adjungere_ vites,
Conveniat: _quae_ cura _boum_, _qui_ cultus _habendo_.

Again,

"--_Sed_ viva volare
_Sideris in numerum_.--

And,

"--_Asia longe_
Pulia palus.--

Of the _Double_ initial _Alliteratio_, this is an Example:

"_Totaque thuriferis Panchaia pinguis arenis._

Of the _Treble_ and more frequent initial _Alliteratio_, this is an
Instance:

"_Et sola in sicca secum spatiatur arena._

The _Mix'd Alliteratio_, and the _Assultus_ are to be found in these
two Lines:

"Illas _ducit_ amor trans Gargara, transque sonantem
Ascanium: superant _montes_, & flumina tranant.

In these two Lines the Vowel _a_ is repeated fourteen times, and what
an Effect this has upon the Ear, the Reader cannot but perceive.

2. Of the _Allusio Verborum_, the following are Examples:

"_Nec nocturna quidem carpentes pensa puellae._

Again,

"_Hoc metuens; molemque & montes insuper altos._

Again,

"_Stat sonipes, ac frena ferox spumantia mandit._

Again,

"_Vitavisse vices Danaum._

3. Of the _Assonantia Syllabarum_ or _Rhyme_, there are in _Virgil_
the several following Sorts.

1. _The plain direct Rhyme_, which is of two Kinds, _Single_ or
_Double_.

2. _The intermediate_ or _casual plain Rhyme_.

3. _The scanning conclusive Rhyme_. So called, because it would hardly
be perceived by the Generality of Readers, unless they first scann'd
the Verse; but when they have done that in three or four Lines, the
Ear will afterwards make the necessary Distinction without any farther
trouble.

I will explain and give Examples of all these several sorts of _Rhyme_
in their Orde