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Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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"_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 _hæc 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.
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