Beguile has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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1. | As is the wont of seamen, to beguile their toil one of them sang a song, in the chorus of which the others joined at intervals. | |
2. | But crafty Cytherea planned meanwhile / new arts, new schemes: that Cupid should conspire, / in likeness of Ascanius, to beguile / the queen with gifts, and kindle fierce desire, / and turn the marrow of her bones to fire. |