§ =236.= The four-lined, cross-rhyming stanza gives rise by doubling to the eight-lined (_a b a b a b a b_), which occurs very often in Middle English, as in Wright's _Spec. of Lyr. Poetry_, p. 99, or in the _Luve-Rone_ by Thomas de Hales, ed. Morris (_Old Eng. Misc._, p. 93), where both masculine and feminine rhymes are used: _A Mayde cristes me bit yorne, þat ich hire wurche a luue ron: For hwan heo myhle best ileorne to taken on oþer soþ lefmon, Þat treowest were of alle berne and beste wyte cuþe a freo wymmon; Ich hire nule nowiht werne, ich hire wule teche as ic con._ Stanzas of this kind are met with also in Modern English, as in Burns (p. 262); stanzas of four-stressed lines are found in Wright's _Spec. of Lyr. Poetry_, p. 110, and others of three-foot verses in _Polit. Poems_, i. 270. There is still another mode of doubling, by which the four originally long-lined verses are broken up by the use of two different inserted rhymes; the scheme is then: _a b a b c b c b_. This is the stanza to which the second version of the _Legend of St. Katherine_ has been adapted in paraphrasing it from the first (cf. §§ 77, 78, 235): _He that made bothe sunne and mone In heuene and erthe for to schyne, Bringe vs to heuene, with him to wone, And schylde vs from helle pyne! Lystnys, and I schal you telle The lyff off an holy virgyne, That trewely Jhesu louede wel: Here name was callyd Kateryne._ This stanza occurs, e.g., in Burns (p. 201). Less common is the form of stanza _a b a b a c a c_ (e.g. in Wyatt, p. 48) resulting from the breaking up two rhyming couplets of long lines by inserted rhyme (not from four long lines with one rhyme). The common mode of doubling is by adding to a four-lined stanza a second of exactly the same structure, but with new rhymes. Some few examples occur in Middle English in the _Surtees Psalter_, Ps. xliv, ll. 11, 12. Very frequently, however, we find it in Modern English constructed of the most varying metres, as, e.g., of five-foot iambic verses in Milton, _Psalm VIII_ (vol. iii, p. 29): _O Jehovah our Lord, how wondrous great And glorious is thy name through all the earth, So as above the heavens thy praise to set! Out of the tender mouths of latest birth, Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou Hast founded strength, because of all thy foes, To stint the enemy, and slack the avenger's brow, That bends his rage thy providence to oppose._ More popular are stanzas of this kind consisting of three- or four-foot iambic, trochaic, and iambic-anapaestic verses, sometimes with alternate masculine and feminine rhymes. (For specimens see _Metrik_, ii, § 271.)