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1. To treat of the plain _Single_ direct _Rhyme_. The following Verses
are Examples of this sort of Rhyme: But to make them more like our
own, I will divide the Verse into two Parts.
"_Poculaque inventis
Acheloia miscuit uvis._
"_Totaque Thuriferis
Panchaia pinguis arenis._
"_Et premere, & laxas
Sciret dare, jussus habenas._
"_Atque rotis summas
Levibus pellabitur undas._
"_O nimium coelo
Et pelago confise sereno._
Many more of these Lines might be produced, but these are sufficient.
Of the plain direct _Double_ Rhyme (which is the Sort of Rhyme the
_Spectator_ speaks of No. 60, and which the Monks were in Love with)
the following are Instances.
"_Hic labor extremus, lon_garum _haec meta vi_arum.
Again,
"_I nunc & verbis
Virtutem illude superbis._
Again,
"_Cornua veletarum
Obvertimus Antennarum._
2. _Of the intermediate plain Rhyme_, the following are Examples.
"Imposuit, _regemque_ dedit, _qui foedere certo_.
And,
"_Descendo, ac ducente_ Deo _flammam inter & hostes_.
In this Passage _Virgil_ uses _Deus_ in speaking of a _Goddess_, for
no other Reason imaginable but to enrich his Verse with Rhyme.
3. Of the _scanning conclusive Rhyme_ the following are Instances.
"_Sylvestrem tenui musam medi--taris [=a]--ven[=a]_.
"_Nudus in ignota pali--nure j[=a]--cebis [=a]--ren[=a]_.
From whence it appears that _Virgil_'s Poetry is almost all Rhyme of
one kind or other; and it is evident beyond Dispute that he generally
concludes his strong, sounding, majestick Paragraphs with a full
Rhyme, for which I refer to that fine Line already more than once
mentioned, which sums up the Praises of _Italy_.
"_Totaque thuriferis Panchaia pinguis arenis._
And to the Conclusion of his finest work.
"_Hic vero subitum, ac dictu mirabile monstrum
Aspiciunt: liquefacta boum per viscera toto
Stridere apes utero, & ruptis effervere costis,
Immensasque trahi nubes; jamque arbore summa
Confluere, & lentis uvam demittere ramis._
And to this I will add the last Line of the Epilogue to the
_Georgicks_.
"_Tytyre te patulae cecini sub tegmine fagi._
Where the two several Hemisticks or Parts of the Verse Rhyme each to
itself.
I would observe here that both _Ovid_ and _Lucan_, for want of
Judgment, begin with a full Rhyme; the consequence of which is, that
the Conclusion of the Paragraph is less sonorous than the Beginning,
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