"Overmeasure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as having a distinct syllable of overmeasure." He retains Milton's spelling of hunderd without perceiving the metrical reason for it, that d, t, p, b, &c., followed by l or r, might be either of two or of three syllables. In Marlowe we find it both ways in two ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell |
