ser_.

In the second, _Mole_, _Movent_, and _Modesto_.

In the third, _Caudam_, _Cristasque_.

The mixt Alliteration in the first Line where _Garrulus_ is placed
betwixt _Anser_ and _Anas_, makes the Verse very sonorous; but the
mixt Alliteration in the last Line where the Vowel _i_ is repeated
eight times in seven Words, is a very masterly Stroke;

"_Er_i_g_i_t, & mot_i_s s_i_b_i _plaud_i_t loet_i_or al_i_s_."

--I_lle h_i_nc concentus_ i_n omn_i
_Carm_i_ne D_i_v_i_n_i _vat_i_s_.--

Which _extempore_ Remark is itself an Instance of what I am taking
notice of as imitated from _Virgil_.

3. You will perceive the _Allusio Verborum_ to have a very good Effect
in the second Line.

"_Tarda m_o_le m_o_vent, habitu gallina m_o_dest_o."

4. The mixing the singular and plural Numbers in the third Line is
very judicious.

"_Caudam_ Cristasque _rubentes_.

_Ovid_ would have said,

"_Caudam_ Cristamque--

Lastly, The full Rhyme in the fourth Line makes the whole Paragraph
very harmonious. It is not improper to produce here the Conclusion of
the Description of _AEolus_'s Cave, which is one of the finest Passages
in the _AEneid_.

"_Sed pater omnipotens spelunc_is _abdidit at_ris
_Hoc metuens_, mo_lemque &_ mo_ntis insuper altos
Imposu_it, _regemque ded_it, _qui foedere certo
Et premere, & lax_as _sciret dare jussus haben_as.

Would not any body think that _Vanerius_ intended to vie with _Virgil_
in this Place?

October 2. 1736.

_I am_, SIR, _&c._

* * * * *

_P.S._

The Examples I have given in this Letter of _plain direct Rhyme_ are
only in _long_ or _heroic_ Verse, but I might have instanc'd in _Lyric
Lines_. _Horace_ abounds in Rhyme. In the first Ode we find

_Metaque fervidis
Evitata rotis
Palmaque nobilis
Illum si proprio
Condidit horreo_

and several others.

In two of his finest Odes the following Lines are as full Rhymes as
can possibly be made,

_Nec venenatis
Gravida sagittis
Pone me Pigris
Ubi nulla campis
Arbor aestiva
Recreatur Aura
Aut in umbrosis
Heliconis Oris
Aut super Pindo
Gelidove in Haemo._

The two last are doubly rhym'd.

LETTER V.

_SIR,_

I am now to consider _Milton_'s Versification under the same Heads as
I have considered _Virgil_'s, so far as there is Opportunity of doing
it.

I. To begin with _The Var