185. THAT LONG WANDRING GREEKE. Ulysses, or Odysseus, the hero of Homer's _Odyssey_, who wandered ten years and refused immortality from the goddess Calypso in order that he might return to Penelope. xxii. Note the rhymes _deare_, _heare_, and _teare_ (air). This 16th century pronunciation still survives in South Carolina. See Ellis's _Early English Pronunciation_, III, 868. This stanza reads like the description of an Irish wake.
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