There are also contemporaneous or nearly-contemporaneous pronunciation guides. Like poetry of the era, they work with rhyming words, so they're just another par

There are also contemporaneous or nearly-contemporaneous pronunciation guides. Like poetry of the era, they work with rhyming words, so they're just another part of the puzzle. It's not often that the word being "pronounced" (a new coinage or import, or something uncommon or technical) is of any interest, but it's often the only clue that the example words given as rhymes should rhyme.