These facts appear to leave no room for doubt that the Germanic metre has had a continuous history in English poetry from the earliest times down to the present, and that the long line, in Old and Middle English as in Modern English, had four accents (two in each hemistich). The proof acquires additional force from the fact, established by recent investigations, that the most important of the metrical types of the Old English hemistich are found again in Middle and Modern English poetry. NOTES: [107] This view has been combated by the author. The stages of the discussion are to be found in articles by Einenkel, _Anglia_, v. Anz. 47; Trautmann, _ibid._ 118; Einenkel's edition of _St. Katherine_, E. E. T. S. 80; the author's 'Metrische Randglossen', _Engl. Studien_, ix. 184; _ibid._ 368; and _Anglia_, viii. Anz. 246. According to our opinion Otfrid's verse was never imitated in England, nor was it known at all in Old or Middle English times. [108] This line is inaccurately quoted by King James from the poet Alexander Montgomerie, who lived at his court. It should read as follows:-- _Syne fetcht food for to feid it, | foorth fra the Pharie._ Flyting 476. [109] Cf. the writer's paper 'Zur Zweihebungstheorie der alliterierenden Halbzeile' in _Englische Studien_ v. 488-93. [110] Cf. _Chapters on Alliterative Verse_ by John Lawrence, D. Litt. London: H. Frowde. 1893. 8º (chapter iii). [111] 'Die englische Stabreimzeile im 14., 15., 16. Jahrhundert' (_Anglia_, xi. 392-443, 553-618). [112] Prof. Luick, in his longer treatise on the subject (_Anglia_, xi. 404), distinguishes between two forms of this type with anacrusis (× –́ × × –́) and without (–́ × × –́), which he calls A1 and A2, a distinction he has rightly now abandoned (Paul's _Grundriss_, ed. 2, II. ii. p. 165). [113] Also printed in Ritson's _Ancient Songs_, i, p. 12; Wright's _Pol. Songs_, p. 69; Mätzner's _Altenglische Sprachproben_, i, p. 152; Böddeker's _Altenglische Dichtungen, Pol. Lieder_, no. i. [114] Paul's _Grundriss_, ed. 2, II. ii, p. 158. [115] Cf. _Metrik_, ii. 146; and Luick, _Anglia_, xii. 450, 451. [116] See G. Gascoigne, _Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or ryme in English_, 1575, in Arber's _Reprints_, together with _The Steele Glas_, &c., London, 1868, 8vo, p. 34. [117] Bürger's version _Der Kaiser und der Abt_ introduces a regular alternation of masculine and feminine couplets not observed in the original metre which he is copying. [118] Cf. the chapter on the four-foot iambic verse. [119] Recognized by Bishop Percy (1765) as rhythmically equivalent to