Bring me to hear them speak where I may be concealed yet hear them.

'Tis deeply sworn sweet leave me here a while.

The doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.

3. i-n.

This element is not a mere short e-ve, but has a very distinct form of its

own.

Accented.

pip tip, bit writ, cuish hiss, bid hid, fig wig, been linn, mill will, king thing-pittance pretty, linen women, spirit lyric, busy visor, vineyard tribune-miracle tyranny, midshipman englishman — admit refit, amid begin, dismiss insist — parasitic intermittent.

Unaccented (but distinct.)

ignite invite, intend immense, dissuade mistake respite conscript, fertile hostile, calling shilling — puerile juvenile, feminine genuine.

Unaccented (and less distinct.)

direct finance minutely tribunal.

This sickness doth infect the life blood of our enterprise.

It is will he nill he he goes.

The mines is not according to the disciplines of the war the concavities of it is not sufficient.

4. e-nd. Accented.

get yet, check reck, deaf feoff, yes mess, said led, keg beg, mend wend - leopard epoch, fetid heifer, any penny, prelate legate, festive breakfast, medley wainscot―regular benefit, recompense hesitate arrest professed, against immense — respective forgetful, resentment enfeoffment recommended reprehended.

Unaccented, (distinct.)

chicken kitchen, sudden silent, moment transient, greatest smallest, counsel model, novel barrel, cruel vessel, madness goodness, likeness fondness dividend providence.

You shall have gold to pay the petty debt twenty times over,

Men that make envy and crooked malice nourishment dare bite the best.

5. e-rr.

This element probably arose from a modification of the last. (§ 5. 2.) But it is now radically distinct from it.

Accented.

err sir, jerk irk, girt gird, bird heard, terse verse, dearth earth, berth mirth, herb firm, fern yearn, earl pearl, whirl girl — perfect person, mercy merchant, verdant vernal, virtue colonel, servant nervous terminate mercantile · deter refer aver, disperse rehearse converse alternate infernal concerning, aspersion desertion reversion – -determinate reverberate intercalary.

Unaccented, (distinct.)

fetter batter, chaffer father, reader warmer, rover taller, longer stranger — fetterlock butternut, counterpoint finger-post, thundercloud dangerous — confirmation consternation, generation intervention.

And as he errs doting on Hermia's eyes.

I do wander every where swifter than the moones sphere and I serve the fairy queen to dew her orbs upon the green.

6. a-le.

This is a compound element. It is not made of e-nd and e-ve only, as some suppose, but of two extreme forms, (the first more open than e-nd, and the last, e-ve,) together with all the intermediate forms, properly proportioned. In singing, it should never be caricatured thus: a-h————-e-ve.

Accented.

cape bait, faith lace, braid gauge, knave deign, swathe pale, chaise gray - fatal patron, safely chasten, nation patience, ancient changing, chamber angel-placable patronize, neighboring dangerous convey inveigh, abase arraign, detail exhale — dictator bravado, umbrageous occasion.

Unaccented (distinct.)

dictate inmate vibrate, noonday outlay survey (n.), comrade telltale female animate celebrate congregate.

Away I say stay'st thou to vex me here a slave that still an end turns me to shame.

7. a-ir.

This element was originally a modification of the last. (§ 5. 2.) That it has now become a permanent radical variation is not owing to the "republican contumacy of the American lexicographer," as Mr. Smart thinks, but to the actual use of educated men on both sides of the Atlantic, excepting, perhaps, pupils of the Westminster elocutionist.

The further transformation of this element to a-h, as thar for there, bar for bear, har for hair,— a custom which prevails in Virginia and southward, is not of "republican," but undoubtedly African, origin. The true sound is very near a-le, with the natural vowel for its vanish. In the exercises below - must not be made a syllable.

Accented.

pear tare care, fare chair share, heir hair yare, bare dare wear, rare ne'er there, lair ere scarce- - parent careful, fairy chairman, heirloom harebell, barely 'yarely, rareness scarcely -- prayerfully chariness, warily rarity, rareeshow scarcity-repair unfair, beware forswear, forbear declare apparent forbearance, insnaring declaring.

Unaccented, (distinct.)

welfare arm-chair, ploughshare nightmare — farewell.

Let me but bear your love I'll bear your cares.
You'll do him wrong ere you are 'ware.

8. a-t. Accented.

cap gap, chat that, pack whack, mab blab, hag lag, have has— rapine batten, fancy random, ballot gallant, tarry harass-natural national, raillery charity, sacrament chastisement, sacrifice aggrandize - divan sedan decanter example, inhabit imagine.

Unaccented, (distinct.)

compact contract, potash footpad, woolsack mill-dam.

Unaccented, (obscure.)

attend accord, assure absolve, adjust announce - total ballad, com

pass combat.

She thanked me and bade me if I had a friend that loved her.

9. a-sk.

(§ 5. 2.) Accented.

calf chaff half, draff shaft haft, waft draught aft, pass mass lass, cast fast vast, path wrath scath, pant chant grant, chance prance trance, dance lance glance- crafty basket, castle mastiff, vastly fastness, gasping grasping, wrathful pathway, dancing lancers — wrathfully craftiness abaft alas, surpass amass, perchance advance — devastate advancing.

Unaccented and short.

aside abase, abound around, arise alike, awake cabal, parade lament -- habitual calamity, fatality malignity.

Come now what masks what dances shall we have.
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards.

10. a-h.

This most guttural tonic has a perceptible vanish in the form of the natural vowel. And because the subtonic -r has the natural vowel also for its form of vocality, a careless or uncultivated ear does not perceive when r after a-h is articulated, and when not. A negligent or effeminate utterance is thus led into two errors — - that of omitting to articulate -r after a-h in syllables closed by another element, making ahm for arm, dahk for dark, &c.; and that of articulating an -r at the end of syllables that should close on the pure tonic a-h, making ar! for ah ! dramar for drama, &c. The peculiarity of the Middle and Southern States, which substitutes a-we for a-h, has no justification whatever. The sound a-t, slightly prolonged, sometimes substituted for a-h, in New England, is equally to be avoided.

Accented.

palm c'alm,* psalm balm, aunt haunt, taunt daunt, g'aunt flaunt, launch craunch, are tar, par c'ar, far bar, art ark, heart hearth, chart start, dart mart, shark clerk, dark mark, barb g'arb, pard c'ard, bard g'uard, nard lard, farm charm -- almond father, saunter taunton, jaundice laundress undaunted embalming.

avaunt remark

*The apostrophe () indicates the slightest perceptible articulation of y. (25.3.)

Unaccented.

data cuba, comma drama, china villa — umbrella banana, diploma

enigma.

But mark what I arreed thee here avaunt.

The lark that tirra-lirra sings.

11. u-p.

Accented.

cup but, duck rough, thus dost, joust touch, blood come, shove none, does tongue-upright southern, pommel drummer, combat comrade, covert plover, wonted wonder, cousin housewife. covetous sovereign, colander fulminant rebuff enough, above become, allonge

among.

Unaccented.

unfit undo, unbend untaught — solus bonum, nation fusion.

12. u-rn.

This sound differs but little from u-p except in length. u-p is similar in form to the natural vowel which is the form of vocality of -r. Accordingly u-p appears prolonged before -r.

Put but money enough in thy purse.

Who steals my purse steals trash 'tis something nothing.

13. i-ce.

A compound element before which g and k are modified, (§ 5. 3. and § 3.

5, ex.) In singing it should not be caricatured by a-we

e-re.