_d_. Feminine (epic) caesura with feminine line-ending: _Moult souëf i flairoient | radise et canele._ 2. _Vor ál is gódes ríche | an únder þíne hónden._ 32. Alexandrines of this sort, particularly of the last type, are found in a group of poems of the close of the twelfth, or beginning of the thirteenth century, intermingled with Septenaries, and also, though more seldom, combined with four-beat alliterative rhyming long lines and with four-foot verses. Such poems are _On god Ureison of ure Lefdi_ (quoted above), _A lutel soth sermon_ (_Old English Miscellany_, ed. R. Morris, pp. 186 ff.), and _A Bestiary_ (ib. pp. 1-25). The following lines from _A lutel soth sermon_ may serve to illustrate this mixture: _Hérknied àlle góde mèn, | and stílle sìtteþ adún, And ích ou wùle téllen | a lútel sòþ sermún. Wél we wìten álle, | þag ìch eou nóȝt ne télle, Hu ádam ùre vórme fàder | adún vel ìnto hélle. Schómeliche hè vorlés | þe blísse þàt he hédde; To ȝívernèsse and prúde | nóne nèode he nédde. He nòm þen áppel òf the tré | þat hìm forbóde wás: So reúþful dède idón | néuer nòn nás. He máde him ìnto hélle fàlle, | and éfter hìm his chíldren àlle; Þér he wàs fort ùre dríhte | hìne bóhte mìd his míhte. He hìne alésede mìd his blóde, | þàt he schédde upòn the róde, To déþe he ȝèf him fòr us álle, | þó we wèren so strònge at-fálle. Álle bácbìteres | wéndet to hélle, Róbberes and réueres, | and þe mónquélle, Léchurs and hórlinges | þíder sculen wénde, And þér heo sculen wúnien | évere buten énde._ Here we have Septenaries (ll. 1, 4, 7) and Alexandrines (ll. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8) intermixed in ll. 1-8, eight-foot long lines resolved by means of _sectional rhyme_ into four-foot lines in ll. 9-12, and four-beat rhyming alliterative long lines of the freer type in ll. 13-16. The easy intermixture of metres may be explained by the fact that in all these different long-lined metrical forms four _principal stresses_ are prominent amid the rest, as we have indicated by accents (´). § =142.= In the _Bestiary_ this mixture of metrical forms has assumed still greater proportions, inasmuch as alongside of the long-lined rhyming Septenaries and alliterative long lines there are found also Layamon's short-lined rhyming verses and Septenary lines resolved into short verses by middle rhyme. The following passages may more closely illustrate the metrical construction of this poem; in the first place, ll. 384-97: _A wìlde dér is, þàt is =f=úl | of =f=éle wíles, =F=óx is hère tó-nàme, | for hìre quéðscípe; Húsebondes hìre =h=áten, | for hère =h=árm-dédes: þe =c=óc and tè =c=apún | ge fècheð ófte ìn ðe tún, And te =g=ándre ànd te =g=ós, | bì ðe =n=écke and bì ðe =n=óz, =H=áleð is tò hire =h=óle; | forðí man hìre =h=átieð, =H=átien and =h=úlen | bòðe mén and fúles._ Here we have unmistakable long lines of the freer type.