"_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._

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_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