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Show H jftiank Vertv. B Blank or nnrhyined is that form o Hj heroic versa which is commonly em- H ployed in English dramatia and cpit B poetry. It was introduced by tho Earl jH of Surrey, who died in 1547, iu lm H translation nf tho second and fourth B books of "JEneid. " It was first em B ployed in the drama in Sackville and H Norton's tragedy oi "Ferrox and Por IHj rex," which was printed in 15C5, bo R it was iot till Marlowe adopted it in B Ais play of "Tarnburl'uue the Great" H that it became the form regularly em- H ployed in the metrical drama, which it B has since, wirh only occasional inter- B vals, remained. After Milton's use oj B it in "Paradise Lost" it was widelj ex- Bj tended to many other classes of couino- B r;on. Jlrooklri Eng'o. |