A grammar of the Malayan language, with an introduction and praxis..

136 A GRAMMAR, 4tc.
being made to rhyme with the same word both in sense and sound
others, to rhyme to the eye instead of the ear, as ^jj& art with ^U
pcikei, \j^
orang wilhljj^ kurong\ short syllables, with long ones both
in quantity and accent, as 'jjy tolong with cjj^ gadong, Jjyi utan with
\lju-i setaii; words ending with^ r or with * vi, to rhyme with those
ending in J / or with ^n — but in the earlier days of our own poetry
were not offences as great as these committed and overlooked, and how
many ages of progressive refinement did it not require to bring our
metre and our rhyme to their present state of comparative correctness?
In order to enable the learner to apply the foregoing rules and obser-
vations to the practice of the language more fully than he could have
the means of doing from the occasional short examples given in the
course of the Grammar, and to supply in some degree the want of books
printed in the Malayan character, as well as the scarcity uf luanuscripts
in any other hands than those of the natives, I have judged it indis-
pensably necessary to subjoin for his use, a Praxis, consisting of extracts
from several of their works, both in prose and verse, which will serve
to exercise and promote the skill he may have acquired, until oppor-
tunities are afforded him of having access to more ample and more
original sources of information.
PRAXIS.
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