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hou art so poor; I fan away the dust flying in mine eyes; Flowing o'er with court news only of you and them. All such participles (where no consonant divided the vowels) were normally of one syllable, permissibly of two. Mr. Masson is evidently not very familiar at first hand with the versification to which Milton's youthful ear had been trained, but seems to have learned something from Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar in the interval between writing his notes and his Introduction. Walker's Shakespeare's Versification would have been a great help to him in default of original knowledge. If Mr. Masson had studied the poets who preceded Milton as he has studied him, he would never have said that the verse Not this rock only; his omnipresence fills, was peculiar as having a distinct syllable of over-measure. He retains Milton's spelling of hundred without perceiving the metrical reason for it, that d, t, p, b, &c., followed by l or r, might be either of two or of three syll