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... hath resemblance to the letter 7 ; quenching of hot metals to the letter z ; snarling of dogs with the letter r ... hath a continual trembling ; and children have also little things they call cocks , which have 66 water in them , and ...
... hath resemblance to the letter 7 ; quenching of hot metals to the letter z ; snarling of dogs with the letter r ... hath a continual trembling ; and children have also little things they call cocks , which have 66 water in them , and ...
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... Hath rung night's yawning peal . Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn , As oft he rises mid the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum . Collins . The bum - cock humm'd wi ' lazy drone , The kye stood rowtin ...
... Hath rung night's yawning peal . Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn , As oft he rises mid the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum . Collins . The bum - cock humm'd wi ' lazy drone , The kye stood rowtin ...
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... hath call'd wives ; the readiest helps To betray the headly husbands : rob | the easy . So Demophon , Duke of Athenes , How he forswore him falsely , Ben Jonson . And trailed Phillis wickedly . Chau . House of Fame . O belike his majesty ...
... hath call'd wives ; the readiest helps To betray the headly husbands : rob | the easy . So Demophon , Duke of Athenes , How he forswore him falsely , Ben Jonson . And trailed Phillis wickedly . Chau . House of Fame . O belike his majesty ...
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... a wretch should raigne . Sackville . M. for M. Buckingham , 49 . : As being the contrary to his | high will | Whom we resist- P.L 1 . Seeing too much sadness : hath | congeal'd | your C. III . 43 VOWEL COMBINATIONS .
... a wretch should raigne . Sackville . M. for M. Buckingham , 49 . : As being the contrary to his | high will | Whom we resist- P.L 1 . Seeing too much sadness : hath | congeal'd | your C. III . 43 VOWEL COMBINATIONS .
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Edwin Guest. Seeing too much sadness : hath | congeal'd | your blood . T. of the Shrew , Induction , 2 . The elision after the long u is still more rare , Full many a yeare the world lookt for my fall , And when I fell I made as great a ...
Edwin Guest. Seeing too much sadness : hath | congeal'd | your blood . T. of the Shrew , Induction , 2 . The elision after the long u is still more rare , Full many a yeare the world lookt for my fall , And when I fell I made as great a ...
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accented syllable adjective alliteration alliterative couplet Anglo-Saxon poems Anglo-Saxon verse Bonduca Bruce Burns Cadmon Cæd century Chau Chaucer common compound section Comus consonant couplet Cynthia's Revels dialects dipthong dissyllable doth doubt dramatists Drayton elided elision English rhythms eyes final rhime five accents Fletcher four accents gret hath House of Fame Jons King Knightes Tale L'Allegro lable language Latin Layamon Lear letters Lord metre middle pause Milton occasionally Olaus Wormius old English orthography Othello Ploughman poetry poets preposition Prol pronounced pronunciation Puttenham quantity rare rhime rhiming syllables rule Sackville sectional pause short vowel Shrew Siege of Leith six accents sometimes Song sound Spenser substantive thee ther thou three accents triple measure tumbling verse Tusser unaccented syllable verb verse of four verse of six Verses beginning verses of five vowel wæs Wallace word writers