{"id":"01KG8B0ATDMPWZ98MEG84DDEDQ","cid":"bafkreihmltjnn2tzqf5vvdiyyy7kf4aeneoznz5n75xjjy4pmhg3or5whu","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreielkn6hvz63oqia2gjokmsubug34arlv3zgi7nhttdolfoaqdwx4i","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0149.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505246-8sewnqddst4","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0149.jpg","page_number":149,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":388648,"text":"Notes\n143\nlong vowel or diphthong, are often made dissyllables ; z.% fare (see\non iii. 4. <)\"]), fear, dear, fire, hair, hour, more, your, etc. If\nthe word is repeated in a verse it is often both monosyllable and\ndissyllable; as in/. C. iii. i. 172 : \"As fire drives out fire, so pity,\npity,\" where the first fire is a dissyllable.\n{c) Words containing / or r, preceded by another consonant,\nare often pronounced as if a vowel came between or after the con-\nsonants ;as in T. of S. ii. I. 158 : \" While she did call me rascal\nfiddler\" [fiddl(e)er] ; All's Well, iii. 5. 43 : \"If you will tarry,\nholy pilgrim\" [pilg(e)rim] ; C. of E. v. i. 360: \"These are the\nparents of these children \" (childeren, the original form of the\nword) ; W. T. iv. 4. 76 : \"Grace and remembrance [rememb(e)-\nrance] be to you both ! \" etc.\n{d) Monosyllabic exclamations {ay, O, yea, nay, hail, etc.) and\nmonosyllables otherwise emphasized are similarly lengthened ;\nalso certain longer words ; as safety (trisyllable) in Ham. i. 3. 21 ;\nbusiness (trisyllable, as originally pronounced) in J. C. iv. i. 22:\n\" To groan and sweat under the business \" (so in several other\npassages); and other words mentioned in the notes to the plays\nin which they occur.\n6. Words are also contracted for metrical reasons, like plurals\nand possessives ending in a sibilant, as balance, horse (for horses\nand horse's^, princess, sejise, marriage (plural and possessive),\netc. So with many adjectives in the superlative (like coldest,\nsternest, kijtd'st, secrefst, etc.), and certain other words.\n7. The accent of words is also varied in many instances for met-\nrical reasons. Thus we find both revenue and revenue in the first\nscene of the M. N. D. (line 6 and 158), extreme (see on iv. 4. Ii)\nand extreme, cdntrary and contrdry, pursue and pursue, etc.\nThese instances of variable accent must not be confounded with\nthose in which words were uniformly accented differently in the\ntime of Shakespeare; like aspect, impSrtune, sepulchre (verb),\nper sever (never persevere^, perseverance, rheumatic, etc.\n8. Alexandrines, or verses of twelve syllables, with six accents,","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:05.246Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1084},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4N3KNPAGDJAVRPVWBA4","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:06.829Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:09.667Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}