Plural nouns employed, where we should now use
singular :

preys, xi. 160.

hilts, xii. 152.
sights, xix. 150.
sleeps, iv. 249.

Plural substantive with singular verb, xi. 101.

Singular substantive with plural verb, iv. 389.
xii. 124.

there and where, used as substantives, iv. 169.

for, instead of because, passim.

as, for as if, passim.

sentences beginning one way, and ending another, iv.

245, 255.

ix. 200.

x. 118, 477.

xii. 14, 113.

xiii. 163, 427.

xiv. 133.

xv. 38, 109.

less and more; Shakspeare apt to get into confusion
in the use of those words, xii. 8, 273.

xiv. 32, 313.

Words differently accented from modern usage:

advértize, ix. 12.

aspéct, iv. 177.

charáctered, x. 152.

commérce, viii. 354.

cómplete, vii. 235.

confíne, subst. x. 120.
cónjure, beseech, iv. 62.
contract, subst. xix. 137.

Words either pronounced differently in those days,
or lengthened, or shortened, by poetical licence:

briar, monosyllable, iv. 185.

broker, monosyllable, xv. 158.

dear, dissyllable, vii. 107.
fire, dissyllable, iv. 20, 63.
hair, dissyllable, v. 94.
hire, dissyllable, iv. 220.

learn, dissyllable, v. 89.
shake, dissyllable, xv. 43.

years, dissyllable and monosyllable in the same line,

XV. 29.

your's, dissyllable, v. 79:

children, trisyllable, iv. 265.
dazzled, trisyllable, iv. 56.

entrance, trisyllable, vi. 43.

juggler, trisyllable, v. 276.

monstrous, trisyllable, xi. 185.

resembleth, quadrisyllable, iv. 31, 137.

contrary, quadrisyllable, xviii. 160.

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