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To the sound _ou_ he prefixes an _e_ (hard to exemplify otherwise

James Russell Lowell

than orally).

 

The following passage in Shakespeare he would recite thus:--

 

'Neow is the winta uv eour discontent

Med glorious summa by this sun o'Yock,

An' all the cleouds thet leowered upun eour heouse

In the deep buzzum o' the oshin buried;

Neow air eour breows beound 'ith victorious wreaths;

Eour breused arms hung up fer monimunce;

Eour starn alarums changed to merry meetins,

Eour dreffle marches to delighfle masures.

Grim-visaged war heth smeuthed his wrinkled front,

An' neow, instid o' mountin' bare-bid steeds

To fright the souls o' ferfle edverseries,

He capers nimly in a lady's chămber,

To the lascivious pleasin' uv a loot.'