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Me reading "To the Virgins" (Gather ye rose-buds while ye may...) by Robert Herrick in a reconstruction of mid-to-late 17th century London pronunciation

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My readings of Shakespeare's sonnets continue.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Here's sonnets 18 and 19 in a reconstruction of early 17th century London pronunciation. Note the rhyme of "blood"/"brood", and the preserved /æ:/ under secondary stress in "temperate".

I included readings in my normal accent for comparison.

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A recording in which I read Shakespeare's Sonnet 17 ("Who will believe my verse...") in a reconstruction of one form of early 17th century London pronunciation.

Note that "tongue"/"song", "parts"/"deserts" and "come"/'tomb" are all full rhymes.

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I thought I'd take a famous sonnet by Shakespeare (#55) and show how awareness of early 17th century phonology can contribute to appreciation of it

First, here's me reading it in a reconstruction of the dialect of Shakespeare's near-exact contemporary Alexander Gil

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