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Indeed, he even began to be patronized. His master addressed him as "Moussu," the master who had threatened him with ending his days in the hospital! Thus far, everything had gone well with him. What with shaving, hairdressing, and rhyming, two years soon passed away. Jasmin was now eighteen, and proposed to start business on his own account.
I recall, too, the insuperable difficulty of accomplishing the manual tasks imposed upon me, especially that of sewing on my buttons how every few seconds the needle would slip through my fingers, till the thread was tangled up in a veritable spider's web, while the button hung as loose as ever, to the derision of my companions and the disgust of the drill-sergeant, whose contemptuous "You may be a great hand at rhyming, but when it comes to sewing on buttons you're a hundred years behind the times," seemed to exile me to the depths of the eighteenth century.
Rhyming Joe looked up at the ceiling as if in doubt. Finally, he said: "Split the difference and call it even, A hundred and fifty and I'll be leavin'." Sharpman was whirling the knob of his safe back and forth. At last he flung open the safe-door. "I don't care," he said, looking around at his visitor, "whether your story is true or false. We'll call it true if that will please you.
William Reid, junior, who had carefully lodged our numerous impediments; and, at 10 P.M., we weighed for Tenerife. I must not leave the Isle of Wood, which has so often given me hospitality, without expressing a hearty wish that the Portuguese 'Government, now rhyming with 'impediment, will do its duty by her.
I argued from this that my friend the editor will probably receive any quantity of verses for his next issue, containing allusions to "Luna," in which the original epithet of "silver" will be applied to this planet, and that a "boon" will be asked for the evident purpose of rhyming with "moon," and for no other.
Though the poets of the 15th century were not overburdened with genius, they had, at least, a definite model to follow. As in the 14th century, metrical romances continued to be translated from the French, homilies and saints' legends and rhyming chronicles were still manufactured.
They are conveniently indicated by using letters of the alphabet to correspond with each rhyme-sound, whenever repeated. Thus the rhymed couplet "Around their prows the ocean roars, And chafes beneath their thousand oars" may be marked as "four-stress iambic," rhyming aa; the heroic couplet "The zeal of fools offends at any time, But most of all the zeal of fools in rhyme"
Poems that were raised "from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite," were in his eyes treachery to the poet's high vocation.
This may have been an exceptional experiment due merely to the caprice of one eccentric rhymester; but in any case we may assume it to mark the extreme limit, the ultimate development of rhyming tragedy after the ballad metre had been happily exploded. The play is on other grounds worth attention as a sign of the times, though on poetical grounds it is assuredly worth none.
But if the story were true, if it were true, then it should be known; Mrs. Burnham should know it, Mr. Goodlaw should know it, Mr. Sharpman should not conceal it, Rhyming Joe must not be allowed to depart until he had told it on the witness-stand, in open court. He must see him, Ralph thought; he must find him, he must, in some way, compel him to remain.
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