Some vowels in English are made with roughly the same tongue position as the tense vowels, but with less constricted articulation; they are called lax vowels.

At the weſt end is a ſpacious window, with much of its glaſs finely ſtained; beſides which there are thirteen others above, and as many below in the north and ſouth iſles, painted with fleur de liſes, roſes, and portculliſes crowned, and another at the weſt end of each iſle.

though the young Heroe had addreſs’d his Prayers to him for his aſſiſtance

The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way / Wound with his wisdom to his wished stay; / That wandered wondrous far, when he the town / Of sacred Troy had sack'd and shivered down; […]