The meter of seuen sillables is not vsual, no more is that of nine and eleuen, yet if they be well composed, that is, their _Cesure_ well appointed, and their last accent which makes the concord, they are commendable inough, as in this ditty where one verse is of eight an other is of seuen, and in the one the accent vpon the last, in the other vpon the last saue on. _The smoakie sighes, the bitter teares That I in vaine haue wasted The broken sleepes, the woe and feares That long time haue lasted Will be my death, all by thy guilt And not by my deseruing Since so inconstantly thou wilt Not loue but still be sweruing_. And all the reason why these meeters in all sillable are allowable is, for that the sharpe accent falles vpon the _penulitma_ or last saue one sillable of the verse, which doth so drowne the last, as he seemeth to passe away in maner vnpronounced, & so make the verse seeme euen: but if the accent fall vpon the last and leaue two flat to finish the verse, it will not feeme so: for the odnes will more notoriously appeare, as for example in the last verse before recited _Not loue but still be sweruing_, say thus _Loue it is a maruelous thing._ Both verses be of egall quantitie, vidz. seauen sillables a peece, and yet the first seemes shorter then the later, who shewes a more odnesse then the former by reason of his sharpe accent which is vpon the last sillable, and makes him more audible then if he had slid away with a flat accent, as the word _sweruing._ Your ordinarie rimers vse very much their measures in the odde as nine and eleuen, and the sharpe accent vpon the last sillable, which therefore makes him go ill fauouredly and like a minstrels musicke. Thus sayd one in a meeter of eleven very harshly in mine eare, whether it be for lacke of good rime or of good reason, or of both I wot not. _Now sucke childe and sleepe childe, thy mothers owne ioy Her only sweete comfort, to drowne all annoy For beauty surpassing the azured skie I loue thee my darling, as ball of mine eye._ This sort of compotition in the odde I like not, vnlesse it be holpen by the _Cesure_ or by the accent as I sayd before. The meeter of eight is no lesse pleasant then that of sixe, and the _Cesure_ fals iust in the middle, as this of the Earle of Surreyes. _When raging loue, with extreme payne._ The meeter of ten sillables is very stately and Heroicall, and must haue his _Cesure_ fall vpon the fourth sillable, and leaue sixe behind him thus. _I serue at ease, and gouerne all with woe._