Instead of quoting hemistichs or isolated short lines as examples of each of the single types A, B, C, D, E, we prefer always to cite two connected short lines, and to designate the rhythmic character of the long line thus originating by the types of the two hemistichs, as follows: A + A, A* + B, B* + C, C* + E, &c., where A*, B*, C* signify the extended types, to be discussed more fully below, and A, B, C, &c., the normal types. This mode of treatment is necessary in order that our examples may adequately represent the structure of the verse. The short lines are always connected--either by alliteration, by rhyme (or assonance), or by both combined, or sometimes merely by identity of rhythm--into pairs. These pairs of short lines are regarded by Luick as even-measured couplets, while we regard them as alliterative long lines; but on either view each of them forms a coherent unity. We believe that an examination of the couplet or long line as an undivided whole will show unmistakably that the assumption of the even-measured character of Layamon's verse is erroneous, or at least that it applies only in certain cases, when the metre is strongly influenced by Romanic principles of versification. The examples are for the most part the same as those which Prof. Luick has quoted,[101] but we have in all cases added the complementary hemistichs, which are generally of somewhat greater length: A + A: _Ich =h=átte =H=éngest, | =H=órs is my bróðer._ Lay. 13847-8. A*+ A: _and ích be wulle =r=ǽchen | déorne =r=únen._ ib. 14079-80. B + A: _þær þa sǽxisce mén | þæ sǽ isóhten._ ib. 14738-9. B(E?) + A: _hw hi héore =l=íf | =l=éde schólde._ Prov. i. 15-16. A + B: _=l=ónges =l=ýves, | ac him =l=ýeþ þe wrénch._ ib. x. 161-2. B*+ A: _vmbe =f=íftene ȝér | þat =f=ólc is isómned._ Lay. 13855-6. B + C: _and eoure =l=éofue gódd | be ȝe tó =l=úteð._ ib. 13891-2. B + C: _ne wurð þu néver so =w=ód, | ne so =w=ýn-drúnke._ Prov. xi. 269-70. A + C: _mi gást hine i=w=dárðeð | and =w=írð stílle._ Lay. 17136-7. C + C: _for þat wéorc stóndeð | inne Írlónde._ ib. 17176-7. A*+ D: _=k=ómen to þan =k=ínge | wíl-tíþende._ ib. 17089-90. D + A*: _vólc únimete | of móni ane lónde._ ib. 16188-9. E + E: _fíf þusend mén | wúrcheð þer ón._ ib. 15816-17. B*+ E: _þæt he héfde to iwíten | séouen hundred scíþen._ ib. 15102-3. D + *A: _for nys no =w=rt =u=éxynde | a =w=úde ne a =w=élde._ Prov. x. 168-9. A*+ D: _þat =é=uer mvwe þas =f=éye | =f=úrþ =ý=p-holde._ ib. 170-1.