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Every boy or girl finds the metre imperfect, but the pedant comes to its defence with a tribrachys or an anapaest, and sets it right at once by applying to one language the rules of another.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Habcc cnim ance poftteinum fedem/qui eft iambust bcs (icdes tri (yllabos, duos dadyios*vnes, vt fit tribrachys, itidciambus, rpotideUs»
Ivlii Caesaris Scaligeri ... Poetices libri septem ... Editio qvinta 1617
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