that is to prolong the sillable which is written with double consonants or by dipthong or with finale consonants that run hard and harshly vpon the toung: and to shorten all sillables that stand vpon vowels, if there were no cause of _elision_ and single consonants & such of them as are most flowing and slipper vpon the toung as _n.r.t.d.l._ for this purpose to take away all aspirations, and many times the last consonant of a word as the Latine Poetes vsed to do, specially _Lucretius_ and _Ennnius_ to say [_finibu_] for [_finibus_] and so would not I stick to say thus [delite] for [delight] [hye] for [high] and such like, & doth nothing at all impugne the rule I gaue before against the wresting of wordes by false _ortographie_ to make vp rime, which may not be falsified. But this omission of letters in the middest of a meetre to make him the more slipper, helpes the numerositie and hinders not the rime. But generally the shortning or prolonging of the _monosillables_ dependes much vpon the nature or their _ortographie_ which the Latin Grammariens call the rule of position, as for example if I shall say thus. _No-t ma`ni`e daye-s pa-st_. Twentie dayes after, This makes a good _Dactill_ and a good _spondeus_, but if ye turne them backward it would not do so, as. _Many dayes, not past_. And the _distick_ made all of _monosillables_. _Bu-t no-ne o-f u-s tru-e me-n a-nd fre-e, Could finde so great good lucke as he_. Which words serue well to make the verse all _spondiacke_ or _iambicke_, but not in _dactil_, as other words or the same otherwise placed would do, for it were at illfauored _dactil_ to say. _Bu-t no`ne o`f, u-s a`ll tre`we._