Dula. _Shé is in lóve: | Háng me, if Í were só, But Í could rún my cóuntry. | Í love, tóo, To dó those thíngs | that péople ín love dó._ Asp. _It wére a tímeless smíle | should próve my chéek: It wére a fítter hóur | for mé to láugh, When át the áltar | thé relígious príest Were pácifýing | thé offénded pówers With sácrifíce, than nów. | Thís should have béen My níght; and áll your hánds | have béen emplóy'd In gíving mé | a spótless ófferíng To yóung Amíntor's béd, | as wé are nów For yóu. | Párdon, Evádne; 'wóuld, my wórth Were gréat as yóurs, | ór that the kíng, or hé, Or bóth thought só! | Perháps, he fóund me wórthless: But, tíll he díd so, | ín these éars of míne, These crédulous éars, | he póur'd the swéetest wórds That árt or lóve could fráme. | Íf he were fálse, Párdon it Héaven! | ánd if Í did wánt Vírtue, | you sáfely máy | forgíve that tóo; For Í have lóst | nóne that I hád from yóu._ § =176.= Fewer peculiarities appear in the verse of =Massinger=, who (according to Fleay and Boyle) wrote many plays in partnership with Beaumont and Fletcher; for this reason his verse has been examined by those scholars in connexion with that of Beaumont and Fletcher. Like Fletcher, Massinger uses a great many feminine endings; but he has many run-on lines as well as 'light' and 'weak' endings. In contradistinction to Beaumont's practice, he seldom uses prose and rhyme, but he has a great many double endings. His verse is very melodious, similar on the whole to that of Shakespeare's middle period. The following passage may serve as an example: