How much of other each is sure to cost; -truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; In words where the h occurs, and which are frequently repeated, it requires peculiar force of utterance, as in A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! How like a fawning publican he looks! I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures Many that have at times made moan to me; Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Every offence is not a hate at first. MUTES. The First Mute is marked by b, rob, HOBNOB, bob, mob, snob, cob, fob, lob, job, robb'd, mobb'd, cobb'd, jobb'd, robbing, mobbing, jobbing, cobbled, cobble, cobweb; babble, babbler, baby, backbite, backwards, bacon; badger, badness, baffle: ballad, ballust, ballot, balsam; bandy, banish, banker, bankrupt, banner, banquet, banter, banking; barber, barbed, bargain, barley, barren, barter, basket, bastard; beacon, beadle, beamy, beardless, beastly, belpy, bellman, bellow, belly, binder, binding, birchin; birdlime, booby, bubble, bibber, bible, blubber. BECAUSE, become, before, behold, believe, beneath, benign, benumb, bequest, beseech, beseem, beset, besides, besiege, blaspheme, blockhead. BACHELOR, backwardness, backslider, barbarous, barrenness, barrister, battlement, beautiful, benefice, benefit, blasphemy, blasphemous, blunderbuss. Lessons on the First Mute. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, The forcible utterance of the b in the words beauty, beautiful, blood, They say, blood will have blood,— Murder most foul, as in the best it is; The Second Mute is marked by d, gold, BOLD, hold, sold, told, fold, behold, infold, foretold, cold, colder: daring, dark, darkness, dastard, dastardly, dawn, day, deadly, death, dear, debase, deceit, decide, deceive, deceptive, deck, decorate, dream, dreaming, declame, decline, declare, decorum, decorously, deduce, deduct, define, deity, demon, demoniac, depth, department, deplore, deprecate, derision, derogate, despair, desolate, description, determine, detestable, devil, disconsolate, despond, discharge, discontent, discord, disgust, dismissed, dismissing, displeasure, disobedient, distress, doubt, downright, dreadful, droll, drone, drum, drunk, dusk, dwindle, belov'd, hop'd, Lord, world, mad, madman, budged. Lessons on the Second Mute. Your answer had not been inscrol'd: Fare you well, your suit is cold. The spirit I have seen may be a devil,— To die, to sleep! Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves : -to be afeard of my deserving Were but a weak disabling of myself,- As much as I deserve! "Twixt host and host, but narrow space was left, 'Mighty Father, thou thy foes, Justly hast in derision, and secure, Laugh'st at their vain designs. -if on they rush'd, repulse Repeated, and indecent overthrow, Doubled, would render them yet more despis'd, The Third Mute is marked by g, drag; gh, ghost, HAG, fag, lag, mag; haggard, haggardly, haggish, haggle; ghostly, ghostliness; gate, gateway, gather, gathering, gaude, gaudily, gaudy, gaunt, gauntly, gauntlet, gay, gayety, gayly, gayness, gaze, gazer, gazette; geld, gelder, guelder-rose, gelding; gape, gaper, garb, garbage, garbel, gard, garden, gardener, gardening; glad, gladly, gladness, gladsome, glance, gland, glanders, glean, gleaner, gleaning, glebe, glee, gleeful; grace, graceful, graceless, graciously. Lessons on the Third Mute. O fruit divine! Forbidden here, it seems, as only fit For gods, yet able to make gods of men; Old gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old; Is my strict fast, I mean my children's looks And therein fasting hast thou made me gaunt; Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as the grave, Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones. -there is no firm reason to be render'd Why he cannot abide a gaping pig; Why he a harmless necessary cat; This is the liver vein, which makes flesh a deity; A green goose, a goddess; pure, pure idolatry. God amend us, God amend! we are much out o' the way. The Fourth Mute is marked by p, lip. HIP, rip, flip, strip, nip; hop; strop, lop, hopping, hopper, lopping; parcel, parch, parchment, pardon, pardonable; parent, parentage, parental, parenthesis; park, park-keeper, partly, partner, partnership; pension, pensioner, pensive, pensively, pensiveness; person, personable, personage, personal, personally, personate, personification; pier, pierce, piercer, piercingly; please, pleasing, pleasure, plump, plumper. E Lessons on the Fourth Mute. Truly, Madam, if God hath lent a man any manners, he may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand, and say nothing, has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap. -that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return In war was never lion raged more fierce, Pardon me if you please; if not, I pleas'd Seek you to seize, and gripe into your hands, -Think what you will; we seize into our hands The Fifth Mute is marked by t, hit, (and occurs as a terminational in.) HIT, whit, slit, split, bit; hitting, slitting, splitting, spitting, fitting; bitter, bitterness, titter, twitter, tittering, twittering; (as an initial it requires to be forcibly uttered in the following) thunder, thundering; terror, terrified, terrifying; traitor, treason, treasonable, taunt, taunting, taunted; tug, tugging, tumble, tumbler. (It also occasionally requires particular force in certain words where it would otherwise be soft, as for instance, in such passages as given below, beginning "Now hear our English king.") Lessons on the Fifth Mute. A hit, a hit, a palpable hit!— In truth, I see you're mov'd— No, not a whit, not a whit, I do not think but she is honest, Merciful heav'n! Thou, rather! with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Than the soft myrtle: And thou, all shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world! Crack natures' moulds! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters. now hear our English king, He is prepar'd, and reason too he should, To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms, From out the circle of his territories, That hand which had the strength, even at your door, To cudgel you, and make you take the hatch, To dive like buckets in concealed wells, To crouch in litter of your stable planks, To seek the beauteous light of heaven to garnish, The Sixth Mute is marked by k, look. ck, rock, ch chorus. As in words and examples following, viz : Look, book, hook, nook; looking, hooking; bookish, bookseller, bookworm; looker, hooker; hook'd, book'd, &c. Look! Look! where it comes! The prince unable to conceal his pain, And sigh'd, and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and look'd again. ROCK, cock, clock, dock, sock,stock, and their compounds; rocky, rocking; cocking, clocking, docking, stocking, stockfish; cocked, docked, stocked. God has built his church upon a rock, and that rock is Christ; and though the winds and waves may beat against it, yet shall they never prevail. Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship boy's eyes, and rock his brains, In cradle of the rude imperious surge. William, who high upon the yard, Rock'd by the billows to and fro. It was about to speak, when the cock crew, And then it started like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons. And strange to tell! evanishes at crowing of the cock! But even then, the morning cock crew loud, And at the sound it shrunk in haste away, And vanish'd from our sight. The clock strikes one! we take no note of time chorus, choir, chorister; He asked; but all the heavenly choir stood mute, |