In addition to the irregular groups, this speech actually ends on the first line of a couplet, which gets picked up by Hobbinol in the next speech and incorporated into what becomes a cross-couplet group of two, followed by another group of three that allows the contrary rhythm to resolve in the next group of four: Diggon I am so stiffe, and so stanck, That
uneth may I stand any more: And nowe the Westerne wind bloweth sore, That nowe is in his chiefe sovereigntee, Beating the withered leafe from the tree.