Chapter 122

“Nay, some will swear they love their mistress, Would hazard lives and fortunes,” &c.

Read thus:—

“Nay, some will swear they love their mistress so, They would hazard lives and fortunes to preserve One of her hairs brighter than Berenice’s, Or young Apollo’s; and yet, after this,” &c.

“Thĕy woŭld hāzard”—furnishes an anapæst for an _iambus_. “And yet,” which must be read, _anyĕt_, is an instance of the enclitic force in an accented monosyllable. “And yēt,” is a complete _iambus_; but _anyet_ is, like _spirit_, a dibrach u u, trocheized, however, by the _arsis_ or first accent damping, though not extinguishing, the second.

“Wit At Several Weapons.”