gating, continency,
incontinently, commendable, communicableness. We should therefore say
disputable, indisputable; rather than disputable, indisputable; and
advertisement, rather than advertisement.

17. Words in ion have the accent upon the antepenult, as salvation,
perturbation, concoction; words in atour or ator on the penult, as
dedicator.

18. Words ending in le commonly have the accent on the first syllable, as
amicable, unless the second syllable have a vowel before two consonants, as
combustible.

19. Words ending in ous have the accents on the antepenult, as uxorious,
voluptuous.

20. Words ending in ty have their accent on the antepenult, as
pusillanimity, activity.

These rules are not advanced as complete or infallible, but proposed as
useful. Almost every rule of every language has its exceptions; and in
English, as in other tongues, much must be learned by example and
authority. Perhaps more and better rules may be given that have escaped
my observation.

VERSIFICATION is the arrangement of a certain number of syllables according
to certain laws.

The feet of our verses are either iambick, as aloft, create; or trochaick,
as holy, lofty.

Our iambick measure comprises verses

Of four syllables,

Most good, most fair,
Or things as rare,
To call you's lost;
For all the cost
Words can bestow,
So poorly show
Upon your praise,
That all the ways
Sense hath, come short. Drayton.

With ravish'd ears
The monarch hears. Dryden.

Of six,

This while we are abroad,
Shall we not touch our lyre?
Shall we not sing an ode?
Or shall that holy fire,
In us that strongly glow'd,
In this cold air expire?

Though in the utmost peak,
A while we do remain,
Amongst the mountains bleak,
Expos'd to sleet and rain,
No sport our hours shall break,
To exercise our vein.

What though bright Phoebus' beams
Refresh the southern ground,
And though the princely Thames
With beauteous nymphs abound,
And by old Camber's streams
Be many wonders found:

Yet many rivers clear
Here glide in silver swathes,
And what of all most dear,
Buxton's delicious baths,
Strong ale and noble chear,
T' asswage breem winters scathes.

In places far or near,
Or famous, or obscure,
Where wholsom is the air,
Or where the most impure,
All times, and every where,
The muse is still