The terminations tion and sion in our old poets were almost invariably pronounced as two distinct syllables.—Collier.
[139] Among, 1623, '33.
[140] Lives, 1618, '23, '33.
[141] Infected, 1618, '23, '33.
[142] [Old copies, when? and this reading was defended by Gifford and Collier. The present was Dodsley's correction. The old reading is, however, supported to some extent by a passage in the "History of Jacob and Esau," 1568, i. 1—
"But up, Ragan! up, drowsy hogshead, I say:
Why, when? will it not be? Up, I come anon.
Up, or I shall raise you, in faith, ye drowsy whoreson!
Why, when?">[
[143] Of, 1618, '23, '33.
[144] Know sovereign: I that, 1618. Know my soveraigne, that, 1623, '33.
[145] Commend, 1618, '23, '33.
[146] Could never once mov'd, 1633.