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( 31 ) Angry, triyllable. Timon, Act III. c. v. "But who is man, that is not angry."

Henry, triyllable. Rich. III. Act. II. c. iii. "So tood the tate when Henry the Sixth—"

2 Henry VI. Act. II. c. ii.

"Crown'd by the name of Henry the Fourth."

And o in many other paages,

Montrous, triyllable.

Macb. Act. IV. c. vi. "Who cannot want the thought how montrous—"

Othello, Act. II. c. iii. Tis montrous. Iago, who began it?"

England, triyllable. Rich. II. Act. IV. c. i. "Than Bolingbroke return to England."

Nobler, triyllable. Coriol. Act. III. c. ii. "You do the nobler. Cor. I mue my mother—."

It would be quite unneceary to add that Shakpeare intended that the words children, country, montrous, hould in thee places be pronounced childeren, countery, monterous, if the oppugner of this doctrine had not had the folly to repreent uch a notion as chimerical and aburd; imagining himelf (as it hould eem) upremely comical, when he