We will only state some of the differences between Shakespearian versification and that which has now become our normal prosody; namely, such as have excited an ambition of correcting in later editors. There is a large number of verses which a modern ear pronounces to want their first unaccented syllable. The following we quote as they appear in F1, in the opening of the _Two Gentlemen of Verona_: No, I will not, for it boots thee not. I. 1. 28. Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. I. 2. 30. Is't near dinner-time? I would it were. I. 2. 67. These lines are all corrected by editors; and it is evident that there would be little trouble in altering all such lines wherever they occur: or they may be explained away, as for instance in the second cited, 'fire' doubtless is sometimes pronounced as a dissyllable. Yet to attempt correction or explanation wherever such lines occur would be ill-spent labour. A very impressive line in the _Tempest_ is similarly scanned: Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since. I. 2. 53. Where we are rightly told that 'year' may be a dissyllable. Yet that one word should bear two pronunciations in one line is far more improbable than that the unaccented syllable before 'twelve' is purposely omitted by the poet; and few readers will not acknowledge the solemn effect of such a verse. As another example with a contrary effect, of impulsive abruptness, we may take a line in _Measure for Measure_: Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo. IV. 3. 88. This last example is also an instance of another practice, by modern judgement a license, viz. making a line end with two unaccented 'extrametrical' syllables. Two very effective lines together, commencing similarly to the last, are in the same Play: Take him hence; to the rack with him! We'll touse you Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose. V. 1. 309, 310. Another irregularity is a single strong syllable commencing a line complete without it. This might often be printed in a line by itself. For example: Ay, And we're betrothed: nay more, our marriage-hour-- _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, II. 4, 175.