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Angry, triſyllable.
Timon, Act III. ſc. v.
"But who is man, that is not angry."
Henry, triſyllable.
Rich. III. Act. II. ſc. iii.
"So ſtood the ſtate when Henry the Sixth—"
2 Henry VI. Act. II. ſc. ii.
"Crown'd by the name of Henry the Fourth."
And ſo in many other paſſages,
Monſtrous, triſyllable.
Macb. Act. IV. ſc. vi.
"Who cannot want the thought how monſtrous—"
Othello, Act. II. ſc. iii.
"'Tis monſtrous. Iago, who began it?"
England, triſyllable.
Rich. II. Act. IV. ſc. i.
"Than Bolingbroke return to England."
Nobler, triſyllable.
Coriol. Act. III. ſc. ii.
"You do the nobler. Cor. I muſe my mother—."
It would be quite unneceſſary to add that Shakſpeare intended that the words children, country, monſtrous, ſhould in theſe places be pronounced childeren, countery, monſterous, if the oppugner of this doctrine had not had the folly to repreſent ſuch a notion as chimerical and abſurd; imagining himſelf (as it ſhould ſeem) ſupremely comical, when
