Procinct. This word is very uncommon. How others have accented it I know not, but Milton has it thus:

War he perceiv'd, war in procínet, and found
Already known what he for news had thought
To have reported.

Par. Loft, vi. 19.

Prodúce, fubftantive. Until any

other au

thorities can be found, this must pass
for a licence of Dryden's:

You hoard not health for your own private use,
But on the public spend the rich prodúce.

Product:

To whom thus Michael-Thefe are the product
Of thofe ill-mated marriages thou faw’st.
Par. Loft, xi. 683.

There is a manifeft erratum in Dr. Johnson's
account of this word, in the fourth edition of his
Dictionary.

Proftráte, both adjective and verb:

For lofty type of honour, thro' the glance
Of envy's dart, is down in dust proftráte.

SPENS. Virgil's Gnat, stanz. 70.

He heard the western lords would undermine
His city's wall, and lay his towers proftráte.
FAIRF. Tao, i. stanz. 83.

To her my love I lowly do proftráte.

SPENS. Colin Clout, 474

Shakspeare

Shakspeare and Sidney have the word próftrate. Milton has ufed it both

ways:

O'er shields, and helms, and helmed heads he

In púrfuit of the thing she would have stay.

SHAKSP. Sonnet 143.

Record, fubftantive. This word was va-
riously accented even by Spenfer:

To thee, fmall Gnat, in lieu of his life faved,
The fhepherd hath thy death's record engraved.
Virgil's Gnat, ad fin.

Whofe learned Mufe hath writ her own recórd
In golden verfe, worthy immortal fame.

Verfes to Lord Buckhurst.

Shakspeare has used it in like manner

variously :

So fhould my fame ftill reft upon record.

Rape of Lucrece.

To find the faults whofe fine ftands in record.

Nor Mars's fword nor war's quick fire fhall

burn

The living récord of your memory.

Sonnet 55.

Milton, in Paradife Loft, has uniformly given it the regular accent, récord. But Dryden has recórd:

How long they had been cheated on record.

Reflex, Shakspeare :

Religio Laici.

'Tis but the pale refléx of Cynthia's brow.

In which fad Æfculapius far apart
Imprifon'd was in chains remédiless.

SPENS. Faery Queen I. 5. ftanz. 36.
And after thoughts difturb'd,

Submitting to what feem'd remédiless.

Par. Loft, ix. 919.

Dr. Johnson has, on the authority of these authors, adopted this accentuation. But it is irregular; for every monofyllabic termination added to a word accented on the antepenult, throws the accent to the fourth fyllable from the end." See page 187.

Retail,

Retail, fubftantive. Dryden has it fo:

Then mother church did mightily prevail,
She parcell'd out the Bible by retail.

Religio Laici. Ridicule. This was undoubtedly the old accentuation: I have even heard it ufed by perfons who adhered to the ancient fashion. Johnson has admitted it as now prevalent, which certainly it is not. Even Pope, whom he quotes, meant, I think, to accent the word on the antepenultima :

Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,
And the fad burthen of fome merry fong.

I do not at prefent recollect any an-
cient authority for accenting it on the
laft.

Sepulchre, fubftantive. The accent of this was fhifted to the antepenult before

that

that of the verb. Fairfax has used it

both ways:

As if his work should should his fepulcher be.
Taffo, i. ftanz. 25.

The facred armies, and the godly knight

Who the great fepulcher of Chrift did free,

I fing.

Ib. ftanz. I.

Often known

To be the dowry of a fecond head,
The skull that bred them in the fepulchre.

Sepulchre, verb:

SHAKSP. Merch. of Vex.

Go to thy lady's grave, and call her's thence;

Or, at the least, in her's fepulchre thine.

Id. Two Gent. of Ver.

That all the faults which in thy reign are made,

May likewise be fepulcher'd in thy fhade.

Id. Rape of Lucrece.

And fo fepulcher'd in fuch pomp doft lie,
That kings for fuch a tomb would wish to die.
MILT. Verfes on Shaksp. ad fin.

But Jonfon, though contemporary with
Shakspeare, has given the modern ac-

cent:

-I am glad to fee that time furvive,
When merit is not fepulcher'd alive.

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Sojourn,