OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF GOWERS CON?] -510 A.UAXTI: 



2C9 



of love which is unavised. 



but for thou shalt be well avised 



unto thy shrifta as it belougeth, 



a point which upon love hongeth, 

 and is the laste of alle tho, 

 I woll the telle, and thanne ho. 



the mighty God, which unbegonne 



stant of hini self and hath begonno 



all other thinges at his will[e], 



the heven him liste to fuliill[e] 



of alle joie, where as he 



sit enthronized in his see; 



and hath his aungels him to serve, 



Buch as him liketh to pn • , 

 o that they mowe nought l'or>\fejj 

 but Lucifer he put awey, 



with all the roul apostasied 



of hem that ben to him allied, 



which out <>f heven into belli 



from aungels into fendea telle, 

 wher(e)that chew is no joy of light* 

 but more derk than any niirht. 

 the peine shall ben rmlrl : 



and yet of firea nethrlcs 



there is pleute, but they ben blacks, 



wherof no sight may be lake, iii. 274-G 





[Notation. — The verses not being numbered, references are made by volume and page. 

 The sign f denotes that the word referred to is the final word of a verse. S. denotes 



Anglo-Saxon ; rh. rhymed with. 



The sign (*) is used to denote all long vowels in Saxon words, without distinction of 

 variety ; the double dot (") over a vowel, to denote that it makes a syllable; the italic 



type to denote a vowel elided ; 



to indicate that a vowel (not elided) is silent or 



to be slurred (supposing the reading correct) ; the grave accent, to mark tone-syllables. 

 The acute accent is used only w r ith words which in French end in e. 



Words or letters added by me to the text are enclosed in brackets, as [e] : words or 

 letters which I should omit are enclosed in a parenthesis, as (e) 



NOUNS. 



§ 1. Nouns which in Anglo-Saxon end in a 

 vowel terminate in Gower uniformly in e- 



§ 2. First Declexsio* of Astglo-Saxox Nouns 



Neuters. (I. 1. Kask.) 



ere (S. eare), i. 59, 158, 277 : ii. 56, 271, 293 : in 



31 (3 cases). 

 eye, eie (S. eage), i. 53, 127 : ii. 41, 102, 369, etc. 

 eye, ii. 315. 



§ 3. Masculine* (I. 2.) 



ape (S a P a), ii. 294, 295 f. 200. 



197. 



bew (S: bem), H. 33* t, 339 : iii. 26a 



be-Ieve (S. ge-lcafa), i. 366 f: ii- 152, 17'. 179. 181 



18a 



bonde- man (S. bonda) ; iii. 329. 



bowe (S. boga), ii. 101 t, 290, 339 f : iii. 357. 



