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he exhibits words of this kind at full length,—Engle-and, noble-er, wrangle-ing, ſwor-en, a-rums, bow-ers, &c. Had he been at all acquainted with our elder poets, he would have known that this pronunciation was ſo common, that, words formerly having been frequenly ſpelt by the ear, we often find theſe words written as Shakſpeare uſed them; ſower, bower, fier, &c.
The inſtances given above are but a few of thoſe which Mr. Tyrwhitt has collected, to prove a poſition which is incontrovertible. He might have produced many more. Thus, in the Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act. II. ſc. iv.
"And that hath dazzled my reaſon's light;—"
where the ignorant editor of the ſecond folio, not perceiving that dazzled was uſed as a triſyllable, (dazzle-ed) has departed from the original copy, and reads—
"And that hath dazzled ſo my reaſon's light."
Again, in Coriolanus, Act. I. ſc. ix.
"As you have been; that's for my country."
And had he not choſen to confine himſelf to words in which l, or r, is ſubjoined to another conſonant, the following inſtances of words extended for the ſake of the metre, might have been added:
