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In this paper we have delved into the compensatory lengthening in English history by means of Sympathy Theory(McCarthy 1999) subsumed with Richness of the Base(Smolensky 1993). In the case of CVC CL, triggered by the adjacent consonant deletion, we revise the early Optimality Theory (Smolensky 1993) and accept Sympathy Theory and moraic conservation within a syllable. The candidate, which satisfies faithfulness constraints, is selected as sympathetic, and its constraint, ♧MAX-μ O, is placed on the highest ranking. CVCV CL by the nonadjacent vowel deletion was caused by other phonological processes such as schwa deletion and metathesis. The moraic conservation within a foot is justified by Sympathy Theory and Richness of the Base.