The bleeding staunch'd, no vermile drop out-ran; / The leg again wax'd strong, with vigor new.

He was the last King who bore semée of fleurs-de-lis, for France.

The positurae thus indicated not only the appropriate melodic formula, but also a pause and therefore a rhythmical and syntactic break which it is the primary function of punctuation to mark.

pay out a rope to the bitter end (pay out all of the rope)