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Among rhymes now lost are
one with
loan,
love with
prove,
beast with
jest,
eat with
great. (In reading, trust your sense of metrics and your ear, more than your eye.) An example of a pun that has become obliterated by a change in pronunciation is Falstaff ’s reply to Prince Hal’s “Come, tell us your reason” in
1 Henry IV: “Give you a reason on compulsion? If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I” (2.4.237-40). The
ea in
reason was pronounced rather like a long
a, like the
ai in
raisin, hence the comparison with blackberries.
Puns are not merely attempts to be funny; like metaphors they often involve
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