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From the epistle To the Readers, prefatory to Part of Du Bartas, English and French, and in his Owne Kinde of Verse (1625; but written C. 1596), sigs. ~~4-~~4 v: I was about to end; but may not forget to let you vnderstand, that this Bartassian verse (not vnlike herein to the Latin Pentameter) hath euer

this propertie, to part in the inids betwixt two wordes; so much doe some French prints signifie, with a stroke interposed, as here in the first two pages you may see, for example. The neglect of this hath caused many a braue Stanza in the Faerie Queen to end but harshly, which might haue beene preuented at the first; but now the fault may be sooner found then amended.