besides. For your foote pirrichius or of
two short silables ye haue these words [ma`ni`e]
[mo`ne`y] [pe`ni`e] [si`lie`]
and others of that construction or the like: for
your feete of three times and first your dactill,
ye haue these words & a number moe pa-ti`e`nce,
te-mpe`ra`nce, wo-ma`nhea`d, io-li`ti`e, dau-nge`ro`us,
du-eti`fu`ll & others. For your molossus,
of all three long, ye haue a member of wordes also
and specially most of your participles actiue, as
pe-rsi-sti-ng, de-spo-ili-ng, e-nde-nti-ng,
and such like in ortographie: for your anapestus
of two short and a long ye haue these words but not
many moe, as ma`ni`fo-ld, mo`ni`le-sse, re`ma`ne-nt,
ho`li`ne-sse. For your foote tribracchus
of all three short, ye haue very few trissillables,
because the sharpe accent will aways make one of them
long by pronunciation, which els would be by ortographie
short as, [me`ri`ly`] [minion] & such like. For
your foote bacchius of a short & two long ye
haue these and the like words trissillables
[la`me-nti-ng] [re`que-sti-ng] [re`nou-nci-ng]
[re`pe-nta-nce] [e`nu-ri-ng]. For
your foote antibacchius, of two long and a short
ye haue these words [fo-rsa-ke`n] [i-mpu-gne`d]
and others many: For your amphimacer that
is a long, a short and a long ye haue these words and
many more [e-xce`lle-nt] [i-mi`ne-nt]
and specially such as be propre names of persons or
townes or other things and namely Welsh words; for
your foote amphibracchus, of a short, a long
and a short, ye haue these words and many like to
these [re`si-ste`d] [de`li-ghtfu`ll]
[re`pri-sa`ll] [i`nau-nte`r] [e`na-mi`ll]
so as for want of English wordes if your eare be not
to daintie and your rules to precise, ye neede not
be without the metricall feete of the ancient
Poets such as be most pertinent and not superfluous.
This is (ye will perchaunce say) my singular opinion:
then ye shall see how well I can maintaine it.
First the quantitie of a word comes either by (preelection)
without reason or force as hath bene alledged, and
as the auncient Greekes and Latines did in many wordes,
but not in all, or by (election) with reason as they
did in some, and not a few. And a sound is drawen
at length either by the infirmitie of the toung, because
the word or sillable is of such letters as hangs long
in the palate or lippes ere he will come forth, or
because he is accented and tuned hier and sharper
then another, whereby he somewhat obscureth the other
sillables in the same word that be not accented so
high, in both these cases we will establish our sillable
long, contrariwise the shortning of a sillable is,
when his sounde or accent happens to be heauy and
flat, that is to fall away speedily, and as it were
inaudible, or when he is made of such letters as be
by nature slipper & voluble and smoothly passe from


