[3.] Double and triple consonant endings present difficulties of articulation:—Robbed, bragged, divulged, mends, breathed, gossips, casques, barracks, depths, heights, lengths, breadths, lists, aspects, seethes, thirsteth, breathest, sheath'st, melt'st, search'st, sixths, twelfths, tests.
Read with special reference to the articulation of the final consonants:
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
Scattering down the snow-flakes off the curdled sky.
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked.
The guests are met, the feast is set May'st hear the merry din.
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Spirit that breathest through my lattice, Thou that cool'st the twilight of the sultry day.
He groped toward the door, but it was locked, He cried aloud, and listened, and then knocked, And uttered awful threatenings and complaints, And imprecations upon men and saints.