Lowly has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The affection of the lowly is like a wall of sand. | |
| 2. | Here I sit, deserted by all the world, I who am a king's daughter, and a false waiting-maid has forced me to take off my own clothes, and has taken my place with my bridegroom, while I have to fulfill the lowly office of goose-girl. | |
| 3. | Him now Saturnia sought, and thus in lowly strain: / "O AEolus, for Jove, of human kind / and Gods the sovran Sire, hath given to thee / to lull the waves and lift them with the wind, / a hateful people, enemies to me, / their ships are steering o'er the Tuscan sea, / bearing their Troy and vanquished gods away / to Italy." | |
| 4. | "Nor yet proud Ilion nor her towers had stood; / in lowly vales sequestered they abode." | |
| 5. | Then with lowly downcast eye / she dropped her voice, and softly made reply. / "Ah! happy maid of Priam, doomed instead / at Troy upon a foeman's tomb to die! / Not drawn by lot for servitude, nor led / a captive thrall, like me, to grace a conqueror's bed." | |
| 6. | You lowly wretch! |