How much of other each is sure to cost;
How each for other oft is wholly lost;
How inconsistent greater good's with these;
How sometimes life is risk'd, and always ease.

-truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
His heart as far from fraud as heav'n from earth.

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 hate him, for he is a Christian :

I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures

Many that have at times made moan to me;
Therefore he hates 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,
By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd,
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd,
By strangers honor'd, and by strangers mourn'd.
Come buy my primroses,―come buy, come buy!
He that is robb'd not knowing what is stolen,
Tell him not of it, and he's not robb'd at all.

The forcible utterance of the b in the words beauty, beautiful, blood,
renders those words peculiarly impressive in such passages as follows:-
Who can behold such beauty, and be silent,
Sweet harmonist? and beautiful as sweet,
And young as beautiful, and soft as young,
And gay as soft, and innocent as gay,
Blood, blood, Iago!

They say, blood will have blood,—

Murder most foul, as in the best it is;
But this most foul, barbarous and bloody.

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.
All that glitters is not gold,
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold,
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs doth worms infold;
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,

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,
A dreadful interval, and front to front,
Presented stood, in terrible array.

'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,
And to their foes a laughter.

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;
And why not gods of men, since good the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.

Old gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old;
Within me grief hath kept a grievous fast,
And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
For sleeping England long time have I watch'd,
Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt,
The pleasures that some fathers feed upon,

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
To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
To our own lips.

In war was never lion raged more fierce,
In peace was never gentle lamb more mild.
O, my liege,

Pardon me if you please; if not, I pleas'd
Not to be pardon'd, am content withal.

Seek you to seize, and gripe into your hands,
The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford ?

-Think what you will; we seize into our hands
His plate, his goods, his money, and his lands.

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,
Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak,

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 lie like pawns, lock't up in chests and trunks,
To herd with swine, to seek sweet safety out
In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake
Even at the crying of our nation's crow,
Thinking his voice an armed Englishman
To gild refined gold, to paint the lilly,
To throw perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper light

To seek the beauteous light of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

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,
Gaz'd on the fair who caus'd his care,
And sigh'd, and look'd,

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
But by its loss.

chorus, choir, chorister;

He asked; but all the heavenly choir stood mute,
And silence was in heaven; on man's behalf
Patron or intercessor none appeared,