OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF CHAUCER. 
the golden, 2508.* 
the cristen, 4800, 4806, 12463. 
the blisful, 772, 5146, 7989, 9135, 11118, 12169, 
12221, 13889, 14921, 14943. 
this sorweful, 1072. 
the woful, 1736, 4736. 
thyn dredful, 5357. 
this thoughtful, 8171. 
my faithful, 8186, 8219. 
the rightful, 12317. 
here ferful, 12588. 
his cherlisch, 3169. 
oure elvyssh, 12679, 12770. 
the Grekissch, 10523. 
thy wifly, 11765. 
thin homly, 9666. 
the grisly, 11171. 
this busy, 8010. 
that holy, 9137. 
this hasty, 9679. 
this worthi, 10346. 
So, the bitter, 5485, 11168, 11562. 
hir other, 11324, 13442. 
his endeles, 5371. 
the litel, 4493, 5254, 5269, 8443, 8447, 14920, 
14927. 
the passyng, 9101. 
d. Various Adjectives of Latin derivation and 
terminations. 
this real, 8143, 10340 
the vital, 2804. 
th' eternal, 11962. 
his cruel, 8610, 8616, 9867, 15589. 
that gentil, 2799, 5048, 5611, 10580, 13719, 14606. 
this subtil, 11573, 13175. 
this nobil, 14473. 
my soverayn, 11623, 15581. 
the sodeyn, 8192. 
the comyn, 4575, 8307. 
thy bastard, 15864. 
this present, 8346. 
the parfyt, 11768. 
the curious, 9451, 14685. 
hir pytous, 5500, 5534, 8017, 8997, 13581, 13641. 
hir vertuous, 8087, 9269. 
the precious, 15629. - 
the glorious, 15630. 
* the gege, 1989, should be the northern. 
467 
$ 36. The following exceptions to $ 32, $ 33, $ 35, 
a, occur, but many of the readings are suspicious. 
a. To $ 32. 
the gret, 2387, 2525, 14402. 
his high, 2539 (?), 9534 (?), 14328 (?). 
the dreynt, 4489 (?). 
the right, 8149. 
his fals, 13001. 
this good, 14503 (?). 
this proud, 3167 (?) ; (the proudé, 4311, 16245). 
this fiers, 4720. 
b. To $ 33. 
the first, 14239. 
at the, atte, last, 11059, 10759, 14259. 
for the best, 1849 f, 9392 f, 11198 f. 
the worst, 1616. 
c. To $ 35, a. 
the wofulleré cheer, 1342. 
the sorwfullesté man, 9972. 
the semliesté man, 17051. 
$ 37. The distinction of the French masculine and 
feminine adjective is preserved in one case, — seint. 
seint Jon, 5439, 5746, 7382, 7834, 14167. 
seint Denys, 14470, 14562. 
seint Jame, 5894. 
seint Joce, 6065. 
seynt Symoun, 7676. 
seint Loy, 120, 7146. 
seint Martyn, 14559. 
seinté Mary, 7186, 9211, 9773, 10292, 13723, 
14100. 
seynté Charité, 1723, 7701, 16806. 
seinté Trinité, 7406. 
seynté Frideswyde, 3449. 
But seynt Cecile, 12482, 12478. 
vv. 9483 — 8486 are corrupt. 
[So, apparently, in Layamon, seint Myhhel, seinte 
Marie, Vol. iii. p. 38.] 
$ 38, a. The Comparative Degree of the Adjective 
is generally formed in Chaucer, as in modern Eng- 
lish, in -er (S. -re). 
lever, 295. 
besier, 324. 
slyer, 6904. 
badder, 10538. 
