Only one manuscript of Plautus seems to have escaped the general wreck of ancient literature; and it served as the prototype to all the manuscripts at present extant.

It may be remarked, that Bellenden, in the translation of Boethius which he undertook (probably about the year 1536) at the request of King James V., while he omits the cervi, capreols, and even the lutroe, mentions bevers without the slightest hesitation.

As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.

‘Pentasyllabic’ is a pentasyllabic word.