_Rhymes: Dryden._--
"Thou breakst through forms, with as much ease
As the French king through articles."
"To Sir G. Etherege."
"Some lazy ages, lost in sleep and ease,
No action leave to busy chronicles."
_Astræa Redux_, 105, 106.
And again, in _Threnodia Augustalis_, "these," ending line 410, and
"miracles," ending line 414, are made to rhyme.
Was it ever the fashion to pronounce these different terminations alike; or
does any other author of repute of that date use such rhymes?
Again, "hour" and "traveller" are made to rhyme in _Astræa Redux_, 147,
148; "stars" and "travellers," in _Religio Laici_, 1; "are" and "Lucifer,"
in _The Medal_; "men" and "sin," in _Religio Laici_, 89, 90; "convince" and
"sense," in _Ibid._ 148; _cum multis aliis_.