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Excerpt from The Rhymers' Lexicon The' octo-syllabic couplet, and the four-accent distich - displays itself sometimes in a fair imitation of French rigidity, sometimes with a leaning towards English equivalence. This latter results in the anticipation of the famous Christabel metre by the unknown author of a version of Genesis and Exodus, and by others towards the middle of the thirteenth century. Practice increasing, both precision and variety increase with it. The great predominance of the short couplet in those French romances which, as the most interesting part of attain able literature, supply the original of so much of Middle English, makes this a kind of staple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.