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tural Sound of the Words People and Chearful is very much alter'dby their being wrong plac'd; or
ratherthe Verse is quite destroy'd: But to chuse an Example from
Milton.
And if our Substance be indeed Divine.--
Let this be alter'd
And indeed Divine if be our Substance.--
Is not the Verse quite destroy'd by this Alteration? And does it not appear to be sobecause
Indeed and
Divinewhich are Iambick Feetare plac'd as if they were Trochaickand
Substancewhich is a Trochaick
Footis plac'd as if it were an Iambick? But I might have omitted the altering of this Line of
Milton'sif I had
thought of one in Cowley's Davideiswhich is as barbarous as it is possible for the Wit of Man to make a
Verse.
To Divine Nobé directs then his Flight. Lib. 3. v. 3.
NobéMr.
Cowley says in his Noteshe puts instead of
Nobbecause that Word seem'd to him to be
unheroical. But that is not what I am chiefly to take notice of. Divine and Directs are both Iambicksbut Mr.
Cowley has made them both Trochaickswhich makes this Line so terrible to the Ear.
It is plain that Vossiuswho came into
England when he was pretty much advanc'd in Yearsand in all
probability convers'd chiefly in Latin or Frenchknew nothing a women's jordan heels