Miltons Arcades And Comus With Introduction Notes And Indexes
Miltons Arcades And Comus With Introduction Notes And Indexes
A W Arthur Wilson Verity
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12. 32. Pronunciation varies between inveegle and invaygle. Sir Thomas Browne probably preferred the latter ; he spelt the word enveagle, and ea usually had the sound of ay. Cf. The Religio Medici, fol. 1686, p. 4: "these Opinions I never maintained... Or endeavoured to enveagle any man's belief. " See Earle, English Tongue, p. 176. Possibly from aveugler'\. Q blind, ' itself derived from Lat. Ab and oculus. 539. Unweeting. Milton always writes nn-weeting, not unwitting : e. G. Death of a Fair ...Infant 23, 24 : "For so Apollo, with unweeting hand, Whilom did slay his dearly-loved mate. " He could point to the same spelling in Spenser, Faerie Qiieene I. 3. 6: "As he her wronged innocence did weet. " This double e was due to the desire to retain the full sound of the long Saxon i. The latter had dropped out. Professor Earle, p. 119, knows of but "one well-attested example of its complete survival both in the character and in the sound, and that is in the name life of a village near Exeter, a name documentarily extant in a writing of the eleventh century;" and now, as then, pronounced Eade.
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