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OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF GOWER S CONFESSIO AMANTIS. 





shrifte (S. scrift, m.), I M, 158, 277, 372, etc. 



sithe (S. si5, m.), i. 160. 



slepe (S. slaep, vu) } i. 81 f. 



smoke (S. smec, m., also smoca, I. 2), i. 211 f. 



sore (S. sfir, ?*.), i. 310 f. 



sotlie (S. sOS, ft,), i. 31, 32, 42, 86, 91, 114, 169, 



etc., etc., etc. 

 stronde (S. strand, m.), i. 185, 212 f: ii. 333: iii. 



321. 



temple (S. tempel, n.), ii. 157, 171, 384, 386 : iii. 

 16, 337. 



the we (J>efiw, m.) 9 iii. 5 f. 



thinge (ping, n.) 9 ii. 207, 251: nothinge, 337. 



towne (S. tun, m.), i. 205 : ii. 293. 



wawe (S. W»g, 7)i.), ii. 105 f : iii. 230 f. 



wedde (S. wedd, n>), i. 249 : ii. 98 f. 



weie, waie (S. weg, ?ft.), i. 29, 59, 62, 241, 325: 



ii. 170, 331 : iii. 57, 328. 

 weiglite (S. wiht, w.), ii. 276 f. 

 wliippe (S. hweop, m.), i. 283 f. 

 wisdome (S. wisdom, m.), iii. 217, . . 



wive (S. wif, n.), ii. 217 f. 

 worde (S. word, n.), iii. 256. 

 worthe (S. weorS, n.) 9 i. 25 f. 

 WTODge (S. wrang, wrong, m. ?), ii. 324 f. 

 yen (S. year, *.), i. 5.3 f, 160 f, 167 f, 239 f : ii. 



169 f, 303 f : (all, yere to yere). 



Most, if not all, of the above, and many other 

 nouns of the same declensions, are found in the 

 primitive form, without the vowel : e. g., bed, i. 72. 



74 : child, i. 201, 289 : deth, i. 95, 133, 150, 165 : 

 flessh, ii. 342: hew(e), i. 137: hous, ii. 312: kin 

 i. 113, 114 : ii. 71, 75, 132 : lif(e), i. 143, 144, 157: 

 lond, i. 212, 251 : mouth, ii. 15, 137 : ship, i. 77, 

 160, 314 : thing, i. 62, 68, 214 : town, i. 78, 209 : 

 wif, wif(e), i. 114, 128, 185, 200 : ii. 269: word, i. 

 76, 103, 150, 296, etc., etc., etc. 



In many instances the terminal e might be ex- 

 plained as the Saxon dative inflection, but it will be 

 found on inspection that about half of the nouns in 

 the list occur in the nominative or accusative case. 



sho (S. scoh, sceo, m.), i. 15 : iii. 236, is a contract, 

 to, ii. 116, 311, comes from S. adj. fah, fa. 



§ 15. The following merely drop a final n. 



Bwoune (as if from a S. swun), i. 204, 268 : ii. 321. 

 were (as if from a S. wer), iii. 253 f. 





eve (S. jefen, m.), i. 70 f : ii. 332 f, 385 f : iii. 64 f. 

 game (S. gamen, n.), i. 94 f, 281 f : ii. 143, 249 f, 

 281, 338 : iii. 298. 



maide (S. maegden, mseden, n:), i. 154 : ii. 113, 

 228 f, 234 f, 256 : iii. 325. 

 maiden occurs, i. 154 : ii. 280, 281, 334, 344. 



§ 16. Feminines of the Second Declension. 



(II. 3.) 



These nouns have in Anglo-Saxon all the ob- 

 lique cases of the singular in e. 



banke (S. banc), i. 164, 183 : see bench, § 17. 



bene (S. bean), ii. 275 f. 



berthe, birth e (S. beorS), ii. 76, 155. 



blisse (S. bliss), i. 101 f : ii. 145 f, 249 f, 328 f : iii. 



276, 338 f, 349 f. 

 bonde (S. bend, also m.), i. 102 f. 

 bone (S. ben), i. 185 f : iii. 223 (3 cases), 

 bote (S. b6t), i. 228 f, 235 f, 290, 355 f : ii. 118, 



386 f: iii. 11. 

 brigge (S. brycg), ii. 201. 



cheste (S. ceast = lis, f ?), i. 294, 295, 296, 299. 

 dede (S. d£cd), i. 272, 316: ii. 129 f, 280 f: iii. 



306. 

 drede (S. drjed), i. 139 : ii. 120, 129 f, 169 : iii. 



213, 348 f. 

 egge (S. ecg), ii. 251. 

 fille, felle, fulle (S. fy 11) , i. 254 f, 367 f : ii. 98 f, 



136 f, 317 f: iii. 51, 209 f. 



filthe (S. fylS), i. 174. 



for -gifte (see yifte), iii. 372 f. 



glede (S. gled, also m.), i- 280 f. 



glove (S. glof ), i. 351 f : ii. 370 f. 



halle (S. heall), ii. 205 f, 255 f : iii. 35 f, 74 f, 75, 



299 f. 

 halfe, halve (S. healf), i. 8 f, 17 f, 194, 253 f : ii. 



i. 77. 



half occurs 



> 



hede (S. hyd), i. 82 f, 194, 364 : ii. 96, 99, 193, 



207 : iii. 9, 323, etc., etc. 



hele (S. hel, hela), i. 17 f : ii. 210 f: iii. 347 f?. 

 belle (S. hell), ii. 119 f, 128 f, 139 (3 cases). 



arist (S. arist), i. 320 f, should certainly be ariste. 

 fiste (S. fyst), i. 175, regularly : but see Obs. on 



Chaucer, § 17. 

 flight (S. flyht), ii. 37 f, should doubtless be flighte. 

 ight (S. aeht), ii. 378 f, should probably be ighte. 





