Note 97 — SHAKSPEARE PAPERS.—No. II.
Reading edition
It may be thus attempted in something like the metre of the original, which the learned know by the sounding name of Tetrameter Iambic Acatalectic:
"Does Clinia talk of misery? Believe his idle tale who can? What hinders it that he should have whate'er is counted good for man,— His father's home, his native land, with wealth, and friends, and kith and kin? But all these blessings will be prized according to the mind within: Well used, the owner finds them good; if badly used, he deems them ill. Cl. Nay, but his sire was always stern, and even now I fear him still," &c.