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And when my Face is faire Leigh Hunt (Critical Essays: Appendix, p. 5), speaking of certain eccentricities of pronunciation committed by John Philip Kemble, says that this passage was ‘delivered with almost as heroic a resolution as the last; Coriolanus means to be familiar, but Mr Kemble is—what shall we say?— is still Mr Kemble. The word “fair” might positively have been measured by a stop-watch; instead of being a short monosyllable, it became a word of tremendous elongation. We can describe the pronunciation by nothing else than by such a sound as fay-er-r-r.’