Where ye see euery verse is all of a measure, and yet vnegall in number of sillables:  for the second verse is but of sixe sillables, where the rest are of eight.  But the reason is for that in three of the same verses are two Dactils a peece, which abridge two sillables in euery verse:  and so maketh the longest euen with the shortest.  Ye may note besides by the first verse, how much better some bisillable becommeth to peece out an other longer foote then another word doth:  for in place of [render] if ye had sayd [restore] it had marred the Dactil, and of necessitie driuen him out at length to be a verse Iambic of foure feet, because [render] is naturally a Trocheus & makes the first two times of a dactil. [Restore]is naturally a Iambus, & in this place could not possibly haue made a pleasant dactil.

Now againe if ye will say to me that these two words [libertie] and [conquerours] be not precise Dactils by the Latine rule.  So much will I confesse to, but since they go currant inough vpon the tongue and be so vsually pronounced, they may passe wel inough for Dactils in our vulgar meeters, & that is inough for me, seeking but to fashion an art, & not to finish it:  which time only & custom haue authoritie to do, specially in all cases of language as the Poet hath wittily remembred in this verse
                          si volet usus,
  Quem penes arbitrium est & vis & norma loquendi.

The Earle of Surrey upon the death of Sir Thomas Wiat made among other this verse Pentameter and of ten sillables,
  What holy graue (alas) what sepulcher

But if I had had the making of him, he should haue bene of eleuen sillables and kept his measure of fiue still, and would so haue runne more pleasantly a great deale; for as he is now, though he be euen he seemes odde and defectiue, for not well obseruing the natural accent of euery word, and this would haue bene soone holpen by inserting one monosillable in the middle of the verse, and drawing another sillable in the beginning into a Dactil, this word [holy] being a good [Pirrichius] & very well seruing the turne, thus,
  Wha-t ho`li`e gra-ue a`la-s wha`t fit se`pu-lche`r.
Which verse if ye peruse throughout ye shall finde him after the first dactil all Trochaick & not Iambic, nor of any other foot of two times.  But perchance if ye would seeme yet more curious, in place of these four Trocheus ye might induce other feete of three times, as to make the three sillables next following the dactil, the foote [amphimacer] the last word [Sepulcher] the foote [amphibracus] leauing the other midle word for a [Iambus] thus.
  Wha-t ho`li`e gra-ue a`la-s wha`t fit se`pu-lche`r.
If ye aske me further why I make [what] first