In other places of the _Towneley Mysteries_ similar stanzas are written in lines which have almost an alexandrine rhythm (cf. _Metrik_, i. 229), while, on the other hand, in the _Coventry Mysteries_ we not unfrequently meet with stanzas of the same form written in lines which, in consequence of their concise structure, approach even-beat lines of four measures, or directly pass into this metre. The intermixture of different kinds of line is even carried here to such a length that to a _frons_ of four-beat lines is joined a _cauda_ of even-beat lines of four or three measures corresponding to King James VI's rule quoted above (p. 108) for such stanzas; and on the other hand to a _frons_ of even-beat lines of four measures is joined a _cauda_ of two-beat short lines. § =67.= The distinctly four-beat line, however, still forms the staple of the different kinds of verse occurring in these poems, and was also used in them for simple forms of stanza. In the further development of dramatic poetry it remained much in use. Skelton's Moral Play _Magnificence_, and most of the Moralities and Interludes contained in Dodsley's _Old Plays_ (ed. Hazlitt), vols. i-iv, are written chiefly in this popular metre. As a rule it rhymes here in couplets, and under the influence of the even-beat measures used in the same dramatic pieces it gradually assumes a pretty regular iambic-anapaestic or trochaic-dactylic rhythm. This applies for the most part to the humorous and popular parts; allegorical and historical personages are made to converse in even-beat verses. Verses of an ascending (iambic-anapaestic) rhythm were especially favoured, as might be expected from the fact that the Middle English alliterative line in the preceding centuries usually begins with one or two unaccented syllables before the first accented one. Of the different types used in the Middle English alliterative line type C (C1), which does not harmonize well with the even-beat tendency of the rhythm, and which is only very seldom if at all to be met with even in the _Coventry Plays_, becomes very rare and tends to disappear altogether, type A (A1) and (although these are much less frequent) type B C (B C1) alone remaining in use.