Chester.
"_Aches_" (Vol. ix., p. 351.).--I am not aware of any rhyme which fixes the
pronunciation of _aches_ in the time of Shakspeare, but I think the
following quite as decisive:
"_Of the Fallacie in the Accent or Pronunciation._--The fallacie of the
accent is, when a false thing is affirmed under colour of pronouncing
it as another thing that is true. For example:
'Where no _ache_ is, there needs no salve;
In the gout there is no H,
Therefore, in the gout, there needs no salve.'"
_The Elements of Logicke_, by Peter Dumoulin. Translated out of the
French copie by Nathanael De-Lawne, with the Author's approbation:
London, 1624, 24mo.
"_Anthony._ Thou bleedest apace.
_Scarus._ I had a wound here that was like a T;
But now 'tis made an H."
_Ant. and Cleop._, Act IV. Sc. 7.
See also on the "aitch" question, _Letters of an Irish Student_, vol. i. p.
256., London, 1812; and _The Parlour Window_, by the Rev. Edward Mangin, p.
146., London, 1841.