In other poems the group of short lines rhyming according to the scheme _a a a b_ and forming part of the _cauda_ is preceded neither by a long alliterative line nor by a one-beat half section of it (as in _Susan_), but by a complete two-beat sectional verse, which then, in the same way as the last verse rhyming with it, corresponds in its structure to that of the second hemistich of the long line; as e.g. in _The Tournament of Tottenham_ (Ritson's _Ancient Songs_, i. 85-94), rhyming on the scheme _A A A A b c c c b_ (the capitals signifying the long lines), and in _The Ballad of Kynd Kittok_, possibly by W. Dunbar (Laing, ii. 35, 36; Small, i. 52, 53; Schipper, 70).
In _Sayne John the Euaungelist_ the 'cauda' has the structure of a complete tail-rhyme-stanza, the order of rhymes of the whole stanza being _A B A B A B A B c c d c c d_.
§ =65.= In connexion with this it is particularly interesting to note that such two-beat sections of the alliterative line are also used by themselves for whole poems written in tail-rhyme-stanzas (as was first shown by Prof. Luick, _Anglia_, xii, pp. 440 ff.); cf. e.g. the translation of the _Disticha Catonis_ (E.E.T.S. 68), the two first stanzas of which may be quoted here:
_If þóu be made wíttenèsse, For to =s=áy þat =s=óþ ìs, =S=áue þine honóur, Als míkil, as þou may fra bláme, Lame þi fréndis sháme, And sáue fra dishonóur._
_For-sóþ =f=lípers, And alle =f=áls =f=láters I réde, sone, þou =f=lé; For þen sálle na gode mán, Þat any góde lare cán, Þár-fore blame þé._
In the same stanza _The Feest_ (Hazlitt, _Remains_, iii. 93) is written.
Still more frequently such lines were used for extended tail-rhyme-stanzas rhyming on the scheme _a a a b c c c b d d d b e e e b_, as e.g. in a poem, _The Enemies of Mankind_, of the beginning of the fourteenth century, published by Kölbing (_Engl. Studien_, ix. 440 ff.).
_Þe =s=ìker =s=óþe who so =s=éys, Wiþ =d=ìol =d=réye we our =d=áys And =w=àlk máni =w=il =w=áys As =w=ándrand =w=í[gh]tes. Al our =g=ámes ous a=g=ás, So mani =t=énes on =t=ás Þurch =f=ónding of =f=ele =f=ás, Þat =f=ást wiþ ous =f=í[gh]tes. Our =f=lèsche is =f=óuled wiþ þe =f=énd; Þer we =f=índe a =f=als =f=rénde: Þei þai =h=éuen vp her =h=énde, Þai no =h=óld nou[gh]t her =h=í[gh]tes. Þis er =þ=ré, þat er =þ=rá, [Gh]ete þe =f=érþ is our =f=á, =D=èþ, þat =d=érieþ ous swá And =d=íolely ous =d=í[gh]tes._