ON EARLY ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO SHAKSPERE AND CHAUCER, CONTAINING AN INVESTIGATION OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF INCLUDING A RE-ARRANGEMENT OF PROF. F. J. CHILD'S MEMOIRS ON THE LANGUAGE OF BY ALEXANDER J. ELLIS, F.R.S., FELLOW OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, MEMBER OF THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL PART I. ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE XIV TH, XVI TH, XVIITH, AND LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY BY ASHER & CO., LONDON & BERLIN, AND FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY, AND THE CHAUCER SOCIETY, BY TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1869. AKE THE SPEECH I PRAY YOU, AS I PRONOUNC'D IT TO YOU. Shakspere, Tragedies, p. 266, fo. 1623. PRAETEREA, NAM, LICET LEGENDI SEMPER OCCASIO EST, AVDIENDI NON SEMPER. MVLTO MAGIS (VT VVLGO DICITUR) VIVA VOX AFFICIT. ACRIORA SINT, QVAE LEGAS, ALTIVS TAMEN IN ANIMO SEDENT, QVAE PRONVNTIATIO, VVLTVS, HABITVS, GESTVS ETIAM DICENTIS AFFIGIT: NISI VERO FALSVM PVTAMVS ILLVD AESCHINIS, QVI, CVM LEGISSET RHODIIS ORATIONEM DEMOSTHENIS, ADMIRANTIBVS CVNCTIS, ADIECISSE FERTVR, ΤΙ ΔΕ, ΕΙ ΑΥΤΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΘΗΡΙΟΥ ΑΚΗΚΟΕΙΤΕ ; ET ERAT AESCHINES, SI DEMOSTHENI CREDIMVS, ΛΑΜΠΡΟΦΩΝΟΤΑΤΟΣ : FATEBATVR TAMEN, LONGE MELIVS EADEM ILLA PRONVNTIASSE IPSVM QVI PEPERERAT. C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epist. ii. 3. VERVM ORTHOGRAPHIA QVOQVE CONSVETVDINI SERVIT, IDEOQVE SAEPE MVTATA EST. NAM ILLA VETVSTISSIMA TRANSEO TEMPORA, QVIBVS ET PAVCIORES LITERAE, NEC SIMILES HIS NOSTRIS EARVM FORMAE FVERVNT, ET VIS QVOQVE DIVERSA FORTASSE SICVT SCRIBEBANT, ETIAM ITA LOQVEBANTVR EGO (NISI QVOD CONSVETVDO OBTINVERIT) SIC SCRIBENDVM QVIDQVE IVDICO, QUOMODO SONAT. HIC ENIM EST VSVS REDDANT LITERARVM, VT CVSTODIANT VOCES, ET VELVT DEPOSITVM LEGENTIBVS; ITAQVE ID EXPRIMERE DEBENT, QVOD DICTVRI SVMVS. M. Fab. Quinctiliani, Inst. Orator. i. 7. Webster 8-21-52 78107 NOTICE. 828 C50 ol.2 v./ THE first portion of the Chaucer Society's publications being ready for delivery to its members, it has been thought advisable to issue at the same time the first four chapters of the present work, which contain an investigation of Chaucer's pronunciation and Prof. F. J. Child's Memoir upon his language. The MS. of the remainder of the work, which will be of about the same extent as the present part, is so far advanced, that it will possibly be ready for issue before the close of the present year; but as the revision at press and the construction of the indices will be very laborious, it may have to be delayed beyond that time. A brief summary of the contents of both parts, and an outline index, is here annexed. Complete Indices will be added to make reference to the great variety of matters treated upon, ready and convenient, as the work is intended to give in a small space the greatest possible amount of information upon a subject hitherto almost untreated. This treatise also replaces the paper on the Pronunciation of the Sixteenth Century, etc., which was read by the Author before the Philological Society, on 18 January and 1 February, 1867. KENSINGTON, A. J. E |