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The Seventh Half Vowel Sound is marked by―

v, prove, f, of.

GROVE, wove, love; move, rove, prove, groove, loving, proving, moving; give, giving, given; valid, valour, valient, valorous; vote, votary, votaress, vote, voter, votive, vacant, vacate, vacation, vague, vagrant, vagrancy, villain, villany, villanous, villanously; value, valuer, valueless, vamp, vamper, vampire, vapour, vaporous.

Lessons on the Seventh Half Vowel Sound.

-Myself am mov'd to woo thee for my wife.

-Mov'd! in good time; let him that mov'd you hither,

Remove you hence; I knew you at the first,
You were a moveable.

-Why, what's a moveable?

-And thou hast talk'd

Of sallies, and retires; of trenches, tents,
Of pallisades, frontiers, parapets;

Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin:

of prisoners' ransom, and of soldiers slain.

Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances,

Of moving accidents, by flood, and field;

Of hair breadth 'scapes i' th' imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insolent foe

And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence,

And 'portance in my travels' history.

O villain, villain! his very opinion in letter, abhorred villain; unnatural, detested brutish villain! worse than brutish; go sirrah, seek him, abominable villain; where is he?

Villany! villany! villany!

I think upon't-I think-I smell't-O villany!

I thought so then; I'll kill myself with grief,
O villany! villany!

The Eighth Half Vowel Sound is marked by—

z, buz, 8, rose.

Muz, coz; muzzy; buzzing, buzzard, cozy, dozy, dozing, pozing, razing, blazing, amazing, glazing, grazing, grazier, zest, zany, zion, zinc, zorliack, zestful, zionward, zebedee, zebulun. (In proper names of Greek origin, x also sounds like z in the following words,) viz. Xanthe, Xantho Xanthus, Xanticles, Xantippe, Xantippus, Xenagoras, Xenarchus, Xenares, Xenetus, Xeniades, Xenoclea, Xenades.

Com'pose, dis'close, dis'pose, com'posing, dis'closing, dis'posing, dis'poser, dis'posal, dis'position.

Lessons on the Eighth Half Vowel Sound.

Come coz; come coz; we stay for you; A word with you, coz. Marry this, coz; there is, as 'twere, a tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh here ;-Do you understand me?

Aye Sir, you shall find me reasonable;

Couzin Abraham Slender, can you love her?

I will do a greater thing than that upon your request, couzin, in any season. Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz; what I do is to pleasure you, Can you love the maid?

COZ.

I will marry her, Sir, at your request.

The rose had been wash'd, &c.

Now rosy morn her steps, &c.

O, be some other name!

What's in a name? that which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.

The Ninth Half Vowel sound is marked by—

s, pleasure.

(sounded as, zhur in)—PLEASURE, displeasure, measure, outmeasure, treasure, intreasure, incis'ure, exposure, reasure, lei'sure, era'sure, closure, inclosure, disclosure, composure, discomposure, disposure.

(sion, preceded by a, e, i, o and u, is sounded zhun) occasion, evasion, invasion, persuasion, dissuasion, adhe'sion, inhe'sion, cohesion, exe'sion, decision, division, preci'sion, inci'sion, colli'sion, division, provision; effusion, displo'sion, explo'sion, corrosion, arro'sion; fu'sion, diffu'sion, infu'sion, confu'sion, conclu'sion.

Lessons on the Ninth Half Vowel Sound.

Bacchus, blessings are a treasure,
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure;
Rich the treasure,

Sweet the pleasure,

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

Through the clouds ;

And following showers, with explosion vast,
The thunder raises his tremendous voice.

But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair,
What was thy delighted measure?
Still it whisper'd promised pleasure.

Sir; if my judgment you'll allow,
I've seen; and sure I ought to know;
So begs you'll hear with due submission,
And acquiesce in his decision.

ASPIRATES.

The First Aspirate is marked by

th-birth, death,

SHEATH, Wreath; worth, mirth, birth; death, breath, path, wrath; breadth, width, length, strength; zenith, herewith, therewith, wherewith, forthwith; thane, thank, thankful, thankless, thanksgiving, thatch, thatcher, thaw, theatre, theft, thief, theocracy, theodolite, theologian, theory, thermometer, thesis, (with r in,) thrall, thraldom, thrapple, thrash, thrasher; thread, threadbare, threat, threaten, three.

Lessons on the First Aspirate.

As man, perhaps, the moment of his birth
Receives the lurking principle of death;

The young disease that must subdue at length

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Then dreams he of another benefice;

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To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside,
In thrilling regions of thick ribbed ice,
; 'tis too horrible!

A Daniel, still I say; a second Daniel !
I thank thee Jew, for teaching me that word.

The Second Aspirate is marked by

f, if, Ph, Philip, gh, laugh.

BRIEF, leaf, oaf, proof, grief, deaf, (with ul in) dreadful, venge'ful, time'ful, graceful, change'ful, need'ful, hand'ful, peace'ful, guile'ful, hope'ful; form, deform, re'form, tri'form, multiform, in'form, misin'form, con'form, perform, transform, platform; fool, fooling, foolish, foolery; favour, favouring, favourite, (as ph in) phaeton, phalanx, or phalanx, phantasm, phantom, pharmacy, pharos, pharoah, phasis, phænomenon, phænomenon, phænomena, philanthropy, phil'lip, phillipic, philology, philomel, philosophy, philter, phosphorus, phrase, physic, (as gh in) laugh, laughing, laughter; cough, trough, chough, enough.

Lessons on the Second Aspirate.

If ever you have look'd on better days,

If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,
If ever sat at any good man's feast,

If ever from your eyelids wip'd a tear,

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be,

In the which hope, I blush and hide my sword.
-I never yet saw man;

How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featur'd!
But she would spell him backward,—if fair fac'd,
She'd swear the gentleman should be her sister;
If black, why nature, drawing of an antic,
Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;
If low, an agate very vilely cut;

If speaking, why a vane blown with all winds;
If silent, why a blockhead mov'd with none,
So turns she every man the wrong side.

Philip,

Sir, I did dislike the cut of a certain courtier's beard; he sent me word, If I said his beard was not well cut, he was in the mind it was;

I am bewitch'd; behold my arm

Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up:

And this is Edward's wife-that monstrous witch,
Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore,
That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.
If they have done this deed, my noble lord,
If! thou protector of that damned strumpet,

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The Third Aspirate is marked by

s, so; c, face; t, satiety.

KISS, bliss, miss, hissing, kissed, kissing, history, historical, historian; blissful; mistake, mistaken, mistook, mislead, misinformed; science, scimitar, scion, scission, scissors, scissure; sieve, sighed, siliquous, silly, simile, similar; sinewy, single, singular, sinister; sapphire, sapphira, sceva, schechem, Scythians, Scythipolis.

Face, pace, race, grace; facing, pacing, racing; graceful, graceless; ice, dice, spice, slice, mice, rice, thrice, price, trice, vice; entice, advice, device, suffice; cease, ceaseless, ceased, ceded, cyclopædia, cylinder, cymbal, cynic, cypress, satiate, satiety, satiating.

Lessons on the Third Aspirate.

E'vn such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in look, so woe begone,

Drew Priam's curtains in the dead of night.

This thou wou'dst say: thy son did thus, and thus,
Your brother thus, so fought the noble Douglas,
Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds;
But in the end to stop my ear indeed.
Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise,
Ending with brother, son, and all are slain.
The fire seventimes tried this;
Seventimes tried that judgment is,
That did never choose amiss;

Some there be that shadow's kiss,

Some have but a shadow's bliss:
There be fools alive, I wis,

Silver'd o'er, and so was this.

What have kings that privates have not too,

Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

And what ar't thou idol ceremony?

O ceremony! shew me but thy worth.

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,

This fortress built by nature for herself,
Against infection and the hand of war;
This happy land of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea
Which serves it in the office of a wall;

This blessed spot, this earth, this realm, this England,

This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,

This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land,

Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

The aspirate s after b, d, g, l, m, n, r and v, is pronounced like z. The defect of pronouncing th, instead of s; may be removed by repeatedly pronouncing such monosyllables as have hissing sound, joined with the name, sound of the vowel a, viz. ace, face, case, &c.

The Fourth Aspirate is marked by—

ch, chaise, sh, she, ss, passion, t, nation, c, social.

BUSH, rush, tush, thrush; bushy, rushy, rushing, rushed; shy, shyly, shyness, shingle; shipboard, shipwreck, shipmate, shittlecock, shoemaker, shone, shook, shop, shopkeeper, short'ned shoulder, shoulderknot, shouting, show, showman, showery, shrank, shrewdly, shrugged, shuffler.

NATION, creation, mention, potion, lotion, promotion, convention, prevention; fiction, fictious, captious, cautious, vexatious, ambition, proposition; social, glacial; cruciate; judicial, official, provincial, artificial; (ciate in) depreciate, officiate, enunciate, consociate, associate, excruciate, (cious in) gracious, voracious, audacious, sagacious, fallacious, tenacious.

CHAISE, chagrin, champaign, chandelier, chivalry, chevalier, chicanery.
Lessons on the Fourth Aspirate.

So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne;
And so two citizens, who take the air,

Close pack'd, and smiling, in a chaise and one.
-th' unwearied wheel

That nature rides upon, maintains her health,
Her beauty, her fertility. She dreads

An instant's pause, and lives but while she moves.

Is it not monstrous, that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,

Could force his soul so to his own conceit ?

-And all for nothing!

-What would he do,

Had he the motive and cue for passion,

That I have?

How modest in exception, and withal,
How terrible in constant resolution.

Of my nation? What ish my nation? Ish a villain and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal? What ish my nation? Who talks of my nation? -but kindly still

Compensating his loss with added hours

Of social converse and instructive ease.

The Fifth Aspirate is marked by

h, horse.

HEARSE, heart, heartless, hearten, hearteasing; heaven, heavenborn, heavenly, here, herewith; hero, heroic, heroically, heroine, heroism, how, howmuch, however, howbeit, howsoever, hope, hopeful, hopeless, host, hostage, hostess, hostile, hostility, hostler; hill, hillock, hilly, hist, history, historical, historian; honey, honeybag, honeycomb, honeydew, honeyless, honeymoon, honeysuckle, honor, honorably, hush, hushmoney, hysteric, hysterical.

Lessons on the Fifth Aspirate.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful is man!
How passing wonder he who made him such,
Who center'd in our make such strange extremes!

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