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Most good, most fair,

Or things as rare

To call you 's lost;

For all the cost

Words can bestow

So poorly show, …

(Drayton: Amouret Anacreontic. ab. 1600.)

Because I do

Begin to woo,

Sweet singing Lark,

Be thou the clerk,

And know thy when

To say Amen.

(Herrick: To the Lark. 1648.)

The raging rocks,

And shivering shocks,

Shall break the locks

Of prison-gates;

And Phibbus' car

Shall shine from far,

And make and mar

The foolish Fates.

(Shakspere: Bottom's song in Midsummer Night's Dream, I. ii. ab. 1595.)

(In combination with three-stress:)

Only a little more

I have to write;

Then I'll give o'er,

And bid the world good-night.

'Tis but a flying minute

That I must stay,

Or linger in it;

And then I must away.

(Herrick: His Poetry his Pillar. 1648.)

In the second stanza we have the same measure with feminine ending.

(In combination with four-stress:)

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,

Thus unlamented let me die;

Steal from the world, and not a stone

Tell where I lie.

(Pope: Ode on Solitude. ab. 1700.)