APP. I - PURE TROCHAIC PENTAPODIES: List

Summary

This list, which contains 192 examples, is nearly if not quite complete.

The Two Gentlemen (5):

Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she?

Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her.

1. 1. 140 f.

Sir, your glove.—Not mine, my gloves are on.

2. 1. 1.

Go with me. Once more, new servant, welcome.

2. 4. 118.

Madam, if your heart be so obdurate,

4. 2. 120.

Measure for Measure (IO—see p. 323):

Grace go with you, Benedicite!

2. 3. 39.

Say you so? then I shall pose you quickly.

2. 4. 51.

Mark what I say, which you shall find by every

Syllable a faithful verity:

4. 3. 130 f.

The Folio and texts make the first line a tetrapody ending with “shall find.”

Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose.

What, ‘unjust’?—Be not so hot; the duke

5. 1. 314 f.

What, resists he? Help him, Lucio.

5. 1. 355.

Wherein have I so deserved of you,

5. 1. 508.

To these should be added 3. 1. 108, from which a final monosyllable has apparently dropped out. Claudio answers Isabella distractedly with a brief “Yes,” and continues with his own reflections, which seem to need “then” to connect them with what has gone before.