offes and other merry conceits. 43

What manner of poeme they vsed for memorial of the dead. 45

An auncient forme of poesie by which men did vse to reproch their
enimies. 46

Of the short poeme called with vs posie. 47

Who in any age have beene the most commended writers in our English
poesie, and the Authors censure giuen vpon them. 48

The Table of the second booke.

Of proportion poeticall. fol. 53

Of proportion in Staff. 54

Of proportion in Measure. 55

How many sortes of measures we use in our vulgar. 58

Of the distinctions of mans voice and pauses allowed to our speech,
& of the first pause called Ceszure. 61

Of proportion in concord called Rime. 63

Of accent, stirre and time, evidently perceyued in the distinction
of mans voice, and in that which maketh the flowing of a Meetre. 64

Of your Cadences in which the meeter is made Symphonicall, &
when they be most sweet and solemne. 65

How the good maker will not wrench his word to helpe his rime,
either by falsifying his accent or his Ortographie. 67

Of concord in long and short measures, & by neare or farre
distances, and which of them is most commendable. 68

Of proportion by situation. 69

Of proportion in figure. 75

How if all manner of suddaine innouations were not very scandalous,
specially in the lawes of any language, the use of the Greeke
and Latine feet might be brought into our vulgar poesie &
with good grace inough. 85

A more particular declaration of the Metricall feete of the Greekes
and Latines, and of your feete of two times. 91

Of the feet of three times, and what vse we may haue of them
in our vulgar. 103

Of all the other of three times besides the Dactill. 106

Of your halfe foote in a verse & those verses which they called
perfect and defective.