_"Strid[)e]re apes utero & ruptis efferv[)e]re costis._
VIII. _Lines contrary to the common Measure_, or rather without any
Measure at all, _viz._
"_Quod fieri ferro, liquidove potest electro,
Saxa per & scopulos & depressas convalles._
IX, X, XI. These are the three Articles formerly mentioned, namely,
the _Alliteratio_, the _Allusio Verborum_, and the _Assonantia
Syllabarum_.
1. As to the _Alliteratio_. This is of several Kinds, it is _Initial_,
_Single_ and _Double_; sometimes _Treble_, or more frequent. It is
likewise _Mix'd_, that is, both in the first Letters of the Words, and
in the following Syllables. It is sometimes so often repeated, that it
may be term'd _Assultus_, or an Attack upon, or a storming of the Ear.
The following are Examples of the _Single Alliteratio_.
"_Quid faciat lætas_ segetes, _quo_ sidere _terram_
Vertere, _Mæcenas_, _ulmisque adjungere_ vites,
Conveniat: _quæ_ cura _boum_, _qui_ cultus _habendo_.
Again,
"--_Sed_ viva volare
_Sideris in numerum_.--
And,
"--_Asia longe_
Pulia palus.--
Of the _Double_ initial _Alliteratio_, this is an Example:
"_Totaque thuriferis Panchaia pinguis arenis._
Of the _Treble_ and more frequent initial _Alliteratio_, this is an
Instance:
"_Et sola in siccâ secum spatiatur arena._
The _Mix'd Alliteratio_, and the _Assultus_ are to be found in these
two Lines:
"Illas _ducit_ amor trans Gargara, transque sonantem
Ascanium: superant _montes_, & flumina tranant.
In these two Lines the Vowel _a_ is repeated fourteen times, and what
an Effect this has upon the Ear, the Reader cannot but perceive.