Isolated two- and three-foot lines occur mostly at the beginning or at the end of a speech, or in pathetic passages of monologues; this usually causes a somewhat longer pause, such as is suitable to the state of feeling of the speaker. Short exclamations as _Why_, _Fie_, _Alack_, _Farewell_ are often to be regarded as extra-metrical. Prose also is often used for common speeches not requiring poetic diction.[163] § =172.= One passage from an early play of Shakespeare, and another, chosen from one of his last plays, will sufficiently exhibit the metrical differences between these periods of his work. (For other specimens cf. _Metrik_, ii, §166.) Capulet. _But Móntagúe | is bóund as wéll as Í, In pénaltý alíke; | and 'tis not hárd, I thínk, For mén so óld as wé | to kéep the péace._ Paris. _Of hónouráble réckoning | áre you bóth; And píty 'tís | you líved at ódds so lóng. But nów, my lórd, | what sáy you tó my súit?_ Capulet. _But sáying ó'er | what Í have sáid befóre: My child is yét | a stránger ín the wórld; She hás not séen | the chánge of fóurteen yéars: Let twó more súmmers | wíther ín their príde, Ére we may thínk her rípe | to bé a bríde._ Paris. _Yóunger than shé | are happy móthers máde._ Capulet. _And tóo soon márr'd | are thóse so éarly máde. The éarth hath swállow'd | áll my hópes but shé, Shé is the hópeful lády | óf mý éarth: But wóo her, géntle Páris, | gét her héart, My wíll to hér consént | is bút a párt_; &c. Romeo and Juliet, I. ii. 1-19. Miranda. _Íf by your árt, | my déarest fáther, you háve Pút the wild wáters |ín this róar, | alláy them. The ský, it séems, | would póur down stínking pítch, Bút that the séa, | móunting to the wélkin's chéek, Dáshes the fíre óut. | Ó, I have súffered With thóse thát I saw súffer: | a bráve véssel, Who hád, no dóubt, | some nóble créature ín her, Dash'd áll to píeces. | Ó, the crý did knóck Agáinst my véry héart. | Poor sóuls, they pérish'd. Had Í been ány gód of pówer, | I wóuld Have súnk the séa | withín the éarth, | or ére It shóuld the góod ship | só have swállow'd | ánd The fráughting sóuls withín her._ | Prospero. _Bé collécted: No móre amázement: | téll your píteous héart There's nó harm dóne._ | Miranda. _O wóe the dáy!_