I have dim memories of my grad student days in a history of the language
course--wasn't long o diphthongized differently? I know long a was (uh ee
instead of ah ee, as I recall). So with some tweaking one could make
"attone" rhyme with "stone." I love the once more audible pun on "atone"
and "at one." As a mildly dyslexic reader (as in "dyslexics of the
world--untie!") I'll say it again--modern spelling has ruined a number of
resonant puns. I don't see it here, though. Anne (Prescott)
> Tomorrow, I will be reading the following passage to a group:
>
> Whom when the good Sir Guyon did behold,
>
> His hart gan wexe as starke, as marble stone,
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> And his fresh bloud did frieze with fearefull cold,
>
> That all his senses seemd berefte attone: (II.i.42)
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> How should I pronounce "attone?"
>
> I am at your mercy.
>
> Jim Broaddus
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