492 
fynger: with Goddis fynger, and Eli wel ye witen, 
1472. 
maner: 
9755. 
nedder: lyk to the nedder* in bosom sleighe untrewe, 
9660. 
neyther: neyther man ne best such as men can de- 
vyse, 9413, 9962. 
ofter: if thou bigilé me any ofter than oones, 16914. 
over: that executeth in the world over all, 1666, 
11967. 
persever: I will perséver, I am not precious, 5730. 
silver: he bar alway of silver a smal cliket, 32. 
ther nas quyksilver, litargé, ne brimston, 631 (?). 
sober: but thay ben sobre that for the pepul pray, 
7484. 
somer: the hooté somer had maad his hew al broun, 
396. : 
sowter: or of a sowter a schipman or a leche, 3902. 
togider: and gaderud us togider alle in a flok, 826. 
water: by water he sente hem hoom to every land, 
402, 3815, 13244. 
whether (= wher): I not whether sche be womman 
or goddesse, 1103, 15415. 
wher sche be wys, or sobre, or dronkelewe, 
in maner of a compleynt or of a lay, 
9407, ii. 339, 344. 
let se wher thou canst tellen ought in gest, 
15341. 
wonder: ye wolde wonder how wel and thriftily, 
12531. 
$94. The vowel is elided under similar circum- 
stances in the syllable -en. 
men mooten (moot?) given silver to the poré freres, 
232. 
ful longe wern his leggus and ful lene, 593. 
weren of his bitter salte teeres wete, 1282. 
whan that we comen ageyn from Canturbery, 803, 
896. 
and forth we riden a litel moré than paas, 827. 
i-fetered in his prisoun for evere moo, 1231. 
we faren as he that dronke is as a mows, 1263. 
and though that I no wepen have in this place, 
1593. 
they brenné, sleen, and — hem to mesebsuned, 
5384. 
* Should perhaps be neddre (S. nzddre), but, as before 
said, re and er are interchanged. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF CHAUCER. 
and up they risen, a ten other a twelve, 10697. 
children an heep y-comen of Cristen blood, 14908. 
$ 95. The third person singular of the Present 
Indicative ends commonly in -eth, not seldom in -th. 
When the form in -eth is used, the e is often elided. 
This Palamon answereth, I graunt it the, 1622. 
and thenketh, here cometh my mortel enemy, 1645. 
bounté cometh al of God, nought of the streen, 
8033, 14196. 
makth for his wyf and for his child also, 5318, 
7415. 
thapostil whan he spekth of maydenhede, 5646. 
who clappith ther, sayd this widow, benedicite 
(bencite), 7166. 
thus in delyt he /yveth, and hath don yore, 7944, 
he by the hond than takith this oldé man, 8178, 
5562. 
honoüreth hir, and loveth hir, I yow E 8246, 
8247. 
and spedith yow fasté, for I wol abyde, 9801. 
but Canacé hom dereth hir in hir lappe, 10949. 
the pot £o-breketh, and far wel, al is goo, 12835. 
abideth, for Goddes digné passion, 14396 (abidth, etc.). 
8 96. Miscellaneous Contractions. 
his purchasyng might nought ben to him suspect(e), 
322. 
a schirrevé hadde he ben and a counter (schrivé), 
361 (?). 
in al the parisshé wyf ne was ther noon (parsshé), 
451. 
wyd was his parisch[e], and houses fer asondur, 
'493. 
the ferrest in his parissché, moche and lite, 496. 
to fighté for a lady, benedicite (bencité), 2117. 
what rouné ye with hir maydenes, benedicite, 5823. 
out of here oughné hous, a, benedicite, 5862. 
So, 7038, 7166, 7752, 9211, 12556.* 
» 
and certeynly wher naturé wil not wirche (certnly ?), ` 
2761. 
a man to light a candel at his lanterne (candl), 
5916.f 
freres and feendes been but litel asonder (litl), 
7256. 
* We may therefore infer a lacuna in 1787: 
the god of lové, a benedicite. 
+ So candlestick (canstick) in Shakespeare, 1 Henry 
IV. 3. 1 (Guest, I. 54: canstick in the quartos). 
