A.Z. Foreman | "The Bait" (Come Live with Me and be my love) by John Donne, read in Early Modern pronunciation @a.z.foreman74 | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 7 hours ago
At the end you can hear me singing the first verse to William Corkine's (1612) melody.
For the rhyme bait/deceit, a rhyme on either the MEAT vowel or the WAIT vowel is theoretically possible. Barnsfield, for example, spells the former word "beate" when rhyming with "conceit". The MEAT vowel in words like "deceit" (ditto "receipt" etc.) was apparently more normal in cultured speech. But since I was drawing so much on Robinson's dialect for this recording, I used the WAIT vowel for both words. This was apparently his normal pronunciation of such words.
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At the end you can hear me singing the first verse to William Corkine's (1612) melody.
For the rhyme bait/deceit, a rhyme on either the MEAT vowel or the WAIT vowel is theoretically possible. Barnsfield, for example, spells the former word "beate" when rhyming with "conceit". The MEAT vowel in words like "deceit" (ditto "receipt" etc.) was apparently more normal in cultured speech. But since I was drawing so much on Robinson's dialect for this recording, I used the WAIT vowel for both words. This was apparently his normal pronunciation of such words.
If you like this video and want to help me make more things like it, wherein I read texts in dead accents, consider making a pledge at my patreon.
http://patreon.com/azforeman
There you can access my recordings before I make them public, and also get access to all kinds of subscriber-only stuff like my weekly readings of Shakespeare's sonnets and the King James Bible in various 17th century accents, and you'll get advance access to my public recordings as well.
Got questions? Check my FAQ
patreon.com/posts/faq-64053058
You can follow me on twitter and tiktok @azforeman
