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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,
wh