IN

ENGLISH RHYTHM.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BRITISH POETS, FROM

CHAUCER TO COWPER.

BY THE

REV. ROBERT CORBET SINGLETON, M.A.,

FIRST WARDEN OF ST. PETER'S COLLEGE, RADLEY.

A MANUAL FOR MASTER AND SCHOLAR.

•BODE

"Hic illa ducis Melibai

Parva Philoctete subnixa Petelia muro."-ÆN. III., 401, 2.

"Sweet Poetry's

A flow'r, where men, like bees and spiders, may

Bear poison, or else sweets and wax, away:

Be venom-drawing spiders they that will,

I'll be the bee, and suck the honey still."

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, Four Plays in One.

SECOND EDITION,

RE-WRITTEN AND ENLARGED.

LONDON:

BELL AND DALDY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1871.

298 £23.

NUSIT

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET

AND CHARING CROSS.