UNT. Brunt, blunt, hunt, runt, grunt. Perfect rhyme, wont (to be accustomed) UP. Cup, sup, up. Allowable rhymes, cope, scope, and dupe, group, &c. UPT. Abrupt, corrupt, interrupt. Perfect rhymes, the participles of verbs in ap, as supped, &c. UR Blur, cur, bur, fur, slur, spur, concur, demur, incur. Perfect rhymes, sir, stir. Nearly perfect rhyme, fir, &c. Allowable rhymes, pore, oar, &c. URB. Curb, disturb. Nearly perfect rhymes, verb, herb, &c. Allowable rhyme, orb. URCH. Church, lurch, birch. Nearly perfect rhymes, perch. search. Allowable rhyme, porch. URD. Card, absurd. Perfect rhymes, bird, word, and the preterits and participles of verbs in ur, as spurred. Allowable rhymes, board, ford, cord, lord, &c., and the preterits and participles of verbs in ore, oar, and or, as gored, oared, abhorred, &c., also the preterits and participles of verbs in ure, as cured, immured, &c. See ORĎ. URE. Cure, pure, dure, lure, sure, adjure, allure, assure, demure, conjure, endure, manure, enure, insure, immature, immure, mature, obscure, procure, secure adjure, calenture, coverture, epicure, investiture, forfeiture, furniture, minia ture, nouriture, overture, portraiture, primogeniture, temperature. ́Allow able rhymes, poor, moor, power, sour, &c., cur, bur, &c. Turf, scurf, &c. URF. Purge, urge, surge, scourge. Perfect rhymes, verge, diverge, &c. Allow able rhymes, gorge, George, &c., forge, &c. URK. Lurk, Turk. Perfect rhyme, work. Nearly perfect rhymes, irk, jerk, perk URL, see IRL, Churl, curl, furl, hurl, purl, uncurl, unfurl. Nearly perfect rhymes, girl, twirl, &c., pearl, &c. URN. Burn, churn, spurn, turn, urn, return, overturn. Perfect rhymes, sojourn, adjourn, rejourn. URSE. Nurse, curse, purse, accurse, disburse, imburse, reimburse. Perfect rnyme, worse. Allowable rhymes, coarse, corse, force, verse, disperse, horse, &c. URST. Burst, curst, durst, accurst, &c. Perfect rhymes, thirst, worst, first. URT. Blurt, hurt, spurt. Perfect rhymes, dirt, shirt, flirt, squirt, &c. Allowable rhymes, port, court, short, snort, &c. US. Us, thus, buss, truss, discuss, incubus, overplus, amorous, boisterous, clamorous, credulous, dangerous, degenerous, generous, emulous, fabulous frivolous, hazardous, idolatrous, infamous, miraculous, mischievous, moun tainous, mutinous, necessitous, numerous, ominous, perilous, poisonous populous, properous, ridiculous, riotous, ruinous, scandalous, scrupulous sedulous, traitorous, treachous, tyrannous, venomous, vigorous, villainous, adventurous, adulterous, ambiguous, blasphemous, dolorous, fortuitous, sonorous, gluttonous, gratuitous, incredulous, lecherous, libidinous, mag nanimous, obstreperous, odoriferous, ponderous, ravenous, rigorous, slan derous, solicitous, timorous, valorous, unanimous, calamitous. Allowable rhymes, the nouns use, abuse, diffuse, excuse, the verb to loose, and the nouns, goose, deuce, juice, truce, &c., close, dose, house, mouse, &c. USE, with the s pure. The nouns use, disuse, abuse, deuce, truce. Perfect rhymes, the verb to loose, the nouns, goose, noose, moose. Allowable rhymes, us, thus, buss, &c. USE, sounded UZE. Muse, the verbs to use, abuse, amuse, diffuse, excuse, infuse, misuse, peruse, refuse, suffuse, transfuse, accuse. Perfect rhymes, bruise, and the plurals of nouns and third persons singular of verbs in ew, and ue, as dews, imbues, &c. Allowable rhymes, buzz, does, &c. USH. Blush, brush, crush, gush, flush, rush, hush. Allowable rhymes, bush, push. Bust, crust, dust, just, must, lust, rust, thrust, trust, adjust, adust, disgust, distrust, intrust, mistrust, robust, unjust. Perfect rhymes, the preterits and participles of verbs in uss, as trussed, discussed, &c. UT. But, butt, cut, hut, gut, glut, jut, nut, shut, strut, englut, rut, scut, slut smut, abut. Perfect rhyme, soot. Allowable rhymes, boot, &c., dispute, &c. boat, &c. UTCH. Hutch, crutch, Dutch. Perfect rhymes, much, such, touch, &c. UTE. Brute, lute, flute, mute, acute, compute, confute, dispute, dilute, depute, impute, miuute, pollute, refute, repute, salute, absolute, attribute, constitute, destitute, dissolute, execute, institute, irresolute, persecute, prosecute, pros titute, resolute, substitute. Perfect rhymes, fruit, recruit, &c. Allowable rhymes, boot, &c., boat, &c., note, &c., hut, &c. UX. Flux, reflux, &c. Perfect rhymes, the plurals of nouns and third persons of verbs in uck, as ducks, trucks, &c. Allowable rhymes, the plurals of nouns and third persons of verbs in ook, uke, oak, &c., as cooks, pukes, oaks, &c. Y, see IE. [It is suggested here, that the student be exercised in finding rhymes to a few words proposed by the teacher, and in his presence; and that this be done without the aid of the preceding vocabulary. After the student has exercised his own inventive powers, he may then be permitted to inspect the vocabulary. Such an exercise, if it subserve no other purpose will be found useful in giving command of language.] In humorous pieces, the poet sometimes takes great liberties in his rhymes; aiming at drollery in the form, as well as the matter of his verse. The following tale exemplifies this remark, particularly in the 33d and 36th lines, where the expression "paws off, he " is made to rhyme with the word "philosophy"; and below, "weeping" and "deep in"; "fitting" and "bit in”; divine as " and "Aquinas"; "sully verse" and " Glivers"; "few so" and "Crusoe"; "said he" and "ready"; "home as "} and "Thomas"; k me as " "ideas"; "suffice it her" and " eyes at her " matter he" and "battery"; "brought her" and "water," &c. Although the tale is rather long, it is thought that the introduction of the whole of it may afford instruction as well as amusement, as an example of this peculiar style. THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY. A DOMESTIC LEGEND OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE. BY THOMAS INGOLDSBY, ESQ. "Hail! wedded love! mysterious tie!" The Lady Jane was tall and slim, The Lady Jane was fair, Thomson-or Somebody. And Sir Thomas, her lord, was stout of limb, But his cough was short, and his eyes were dim, And they were a loving pair! And the name and the fame Of the Knight and his Dame, Were ev'ry where hail'd with the loudest acclaim; The people cried Huzza! for the lord of this noble domain One cheer more! All sorts of pleasure, and no sort of pain To Sir Thomas the Good and the fair Lady Jane! Now, Sir Thomas the Good, Be it well understood, Was a man of a very contemplative mood He would pore by the hour O'er a weed or a flower, Or the slugs that come crawling out after a shower; While an "Old Daddy-long-legs," whose "long legs " and thighs He was wont to consider an absolute prize. Nay, a hornet or wasp he could scarce "keep his paws off" hɛ Both business and sport, And abandoned himself, tout entier, to Philosophy. And a good many years the junior of him, All agree, Look'd less like her Miri, As he walked by her side, than her Pere, There are some might be found entertaining a notion To that part of science folks call Entomology, And to such a fair Dame, Really demanded some sort of apology; One half of the sex To see their own husband, in horrid green "specs," Still poking his nose into this and to that, At a gnat, or a bat, or a cat, or a rat, All legs and wings, With nasty long tails arm'd with nasty long stings; And blinking, and winking At grubs, when he ought to be winking at them 'Twas by no means so With the Lady Jane Ingoldsby-she, far discreeter, Her spouse, in respect to Much less be still keeping lamenting and weeping No lady so fair -or Was e'er known to wear more contented an air; They had been, that "they ne'er In their lives had seen ought that at all could compare *My friend, Mr. Hood, In his comical mood, Would have probably styled the good Knight and his Lady Nay more; don't suppose This account of her merits must come to a close; Sat her kinsman M'Bride, Her cousin, fourteen times removed - as you'll see In Burke's Commoners," vol. 20, page 53. Too, with the pedigree, Where, among the collateral branches, appears, While she was a knitting, แ Or hemming, or stitching, or darning and fitting, Some very "wise saw" from some very good book, St. Thomas Aquinas; The "voyages and travels " Of Hackluytz-how sadly these Dutch names do sully verse Not to name others 'mongst whom are few so It was always the same, The Captain was reading aloud to the dame, Till, from having gone through half the books on the shelf, Well, it happened one day, I really can't say The particular month-but I think 'twas in May, 'Twas, I know, in the Spring time, when "Nature looks gay.* As the poet observes, and on treetop and spray The dear little dickey birds carol away; When the grass is so green, and the sun is so bright, And all things are teeming with life and with light, That the whole of the house was thrown into affright, For no soul could conceive what had gone with the Knight It seems he had taken, An egg A light breakfast-bacon, at most A round and a half of some hot butter'd toast, With a slice of cold sirloin from yesterday's roast, And then-let me see! He had two perhaps three |