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A Study of Shakespeare's Versification from APPENDICES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
The following list of 844 quadrisyllabic feet and 18 quinquesyllabics is, I hope, complete; but it is quite possible that a few have been overlooked. The quadrisyllabics in the doggerel of The Comedy of Errors and Love's Labour's Lost are not included in this total, and only a few of the examples from it are given below.
The Two Gentlemen (18):
Thoú, Julia, | thou hast metamorphosed me.
1. 1. 66.Have patience, gentle | Julia.—I | must, where | is no | remedy.∥
2. 2. 1.Julia, fare|well! What, gone without a word?
2. 2. 16.Silvia, I | speak to | you, and | you, Sir | Thurio;∥
2. 4. 84.Servant, you are | welcome to a worthless mistress.
2. 4. 113.Sovereign to | all the creatures on the earth.
2. 4. 153.Plotted and a|greed on for my happiness.
2. 4. 183.The Folio gives “'greed.”
Julia I | lose, and Valentine I lose:
2. 6. 19.Proteus, I | thank thee for thine honest care;
3. 1. 22.Silvia, this | night I will enfranchise thee.
3. 1. 151.Nothing but my | fortune.
4. 1. 43.Who?∧ | Silvia!—Ay, | Silvia; | for your | sake.
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