Among the blank verse lines in Shakespeare's plays there are sometimes interspersed examples of the native four-beat long line. This occurs, apart from lyrical passages, most frequently in the early plays, e.g. in _Love's Labour's Lost_ and in _The Comedy of Errors_, III. i. 11-84, from which the following specimen is taken: Ant. E. _I thínk thou art an áss._ | Dro. E. _Marry, só it doth appéar By the wróngs I súffer | and the blóws I béar. I should kíck, being kíck'd; | and, béing at that páss, You would kéep from my héels | and bewáre of an áss._ Ant. E. _You're sád, Signior Bálthasar: | pray Gód our chéer May ánswer my good wíll | and your good wélcome hére._ Occasionally these verses exhibit a somewhat more extended structure, so that they might pass for Alexandrines; mostly, however, a line of this type is connected by rhyme with an unmistakable four-beat line; cf. _If thóu hadst been, Drómio, | to dáy in my pláce, Thou wouldst have changed thy fáce for a náme, | or thy náme for an áss._ Com. of Err. III. i. 47. For this reason the second line also is to be scanned somehow or other in conformity with the general four-beat rhythm of the passage; possibly we should assume an initial thesis of five syllables. In lyrical passages four-beat lines are often combined also with four-foot iambic verse of the freer type (cf. § 132); e.g. in the following passage from _Midsummer Night's Dream_, II. i. 2-7: _Over híll, over dále, | thorough búsh, thorough bríer, Over párk, over pále, | thorough flóod, thorough fíre, I do wánder évery whére, Swífter thán the móon's sphére; Ánd I sérve the fáiry quéen, To déw her órbs upón the gréen_, &c. The two first lines belong to the first, the following to the latter species. Sometimes the rhythm of such rhymed four-foot verses is purely trochaic, e.g. in the witches' song in Macbeth, IV, sc. i. There are also unrhymed iambic lines of four feet, which usually have a caesura in the middle; e.g.: _The mátch is máde, | and áll is dóne._ Shrew, IV. iv. 46. _Befóre the kíngs | and quéens of France._ Hen. VI, I. vi. 27. Not unfrequently, however, such verses only apparently have four feet, one missing foot or part of it being supplied by a pause (cf. _Metrik_, ii, § 164): _He's tá'en_ ⏑–́ (_Shout_). || _And hark! | they shóut for jóy._ Caes. V. iii. 32. Mal. _As thóu didst léave it._ –́ || Serg. _Dóubtful it stóod._ Macb. I. ii. 7. _Thínk on lord Hástings._ –́ || _Despáir and díe!_ Rich. III, V. iii. 134.