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"If tinkers may have leave to live, And bear the sow-skin bowget; Then my account I well may give, And in the stocks avouch it." Upon this Mr. White has the following note: "'The sow-skin bowget': i.e. budget; the change of orthography being made for the sake of the rhyme; about which our early writers, contrary to the received opinion, were very particular.
And how do we know that bowget was not pronounced boodget, as it would be, according to Mr. White, if spelt budget? Bishop Hall makes fool rhyme with cowl. That ou was sometimes pronounced oo is certain. Mr. White supposes that ea was sounded like ee. We are inclined to question it, and to think that here again the French element in our language has made confusion.
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