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OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF GOWER's CONFESSIO AMANTIS. 



tide (S. tid), i. 326 f : ii. 3 f, 143 f, 250 f. 



warde (8. weard), iii. 55 f. 



wede (S. met), I 221 f. 



wene (S. wen, also wena, I. 2), ii. 88 f. 



while (S. hwfl), i. 282 : ii. 54, 79, 104, 111 : iii. 3, 



348. 

 wombe (S. wamb, womb), ii. 94, 169, 337 : iii. 123, 



124. 

 wounde (S. wund), i. 90 f, 289 f : ii. 245 f, 328 f : 



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ill. 



wrathe (S. wraeS), i. 280, 290 (2 cases), 293, 307 



(2 cases), 

 wreche (S. wrsec, also -u), i. 179, 351 f : ii. 123, 



140 f, 323 f, 374 f : iii. 196 f, 352 f. 

 wulle, wolle (S. wull), i. 17: ii. 83, 98 f, 129. 

 yerde (S. gerd, geard), i. 291 : iii. 249 f. 

 yifte, yefte (S. gift), i 276 f, 323 : ii. 284, 285, 382 : 



iii. 156 (2 cases), 

 youthe (S. geogoS), i. 99: ii 55, 267 f : iii. 303, 



356, 358, 364. 



sib-rede (S. sibraeden), iii. 284 f, merely drops 

 the final n, like the nouns in § 15. So, ap - 



parently, met-rede, iii. 68, 69. 



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§ 17. Exceptions to § 16. 



axel (S. eaxl), i. 320. (?) 



bench (S. bene), ii. 274 : but see banke, § 16. 



bride (S. bryd), i. 102. 



flight (S. flyht), ii. 327, rh. night. (?) 



flor(e) (S. flor), ii. 328 (rh. swor(e) ) : iii. 337 : ii. 



266 (written floure). 

 hen (benn), ii. 264 (rh. men). 



hond (S. hand, hond), i. 41, 59, 151 (rh. fond) : ii. 

 95, 238, 333. 360. 



more frequently honde : i. 5 f, 10 f, 42, 43, 



94, 113, 151 f, 290 : ii. 62, 154, 360 f, 

 372 f ; iii. 276. 



les (S. liss, comfort), iii. 379 f. (?) 



might (8. miht, meaht), i. 56 f, 68, 210 f, 211, 291 : 



ii. 187, 239, 253, 306. 

 milk (S. mile), ii. 262. 



night (S. niht), i. 42 : ii. 15, 97, 102 f, 143 f, 145 f, 



258. 



by night[e], i. 249 : by nighte, ii. 9, 352 

 255(?). 



in 



wierd (S. wyrd, II. 3), i. 340, should certainly be 



wierde 



wente (S. ?), iii. 161 f, and elsewhere. 



plite (S. pliht). This word is always a monosyl- 

 lable, but is continually spelt with a final e, as 

 are also (wrongly) most of the words rhymed 

 with it ; e. g., appetite, spirite, partite : i. 129 f, 



259 f : ii. 120 f, 128 f, 136 f, 147 f, 195 f, 197 f, 

 265 f : iii. 172 f, 234, 296 f, 318, 362 f. 

 sped(e) (S. sped), i. 88, 186 : ii. 395. 

 spede, i. 90 f, 346 f (?) : ii. 117 f. 

 tow (S. tow), ii. 315. 



wight (S. wiht), ii. 149 f, 237 f, 309 f : iii. 63. 

 world (S. weorold), i. 5 : ii. 20, 52, 77, 93, 116, 

 197 : iii. 76, 305. 



But, the worlde fell so thilke tide, i. 245. 

 into this worlde only that, iii. 286. (?) 



[hand, might, night, wight, are exceptional in 

 Anglo-Saxon, having the accusative singular like 

 the nominative: so world, more , commonly : boh 

 (constantly misspelt boke), i. 2, 5 : ii. 58 : iii. 65, 

 133, etc. ; burgh, ii. 232 : iii. 292 ; furgh, ii. 245, all 

 feminines, are also' irregular in Saxon, and have the 

 accusative singular like the nominative.] 



Nouns derived from Saxon feminines in -ung, 

 -ing, or formed in imitation of such, generally have 

 in Gower the termination -inge, less frequently 

 -ing : in the latter case the accent is sometimes 

 thrown back. 



axinge, i. 171. 



bakbitinge, i. 213 f. 



carolinge, ii. 53 f. 



childinge, iii. 211. 



cominge, ii. 29 f, 53 f. 



compleigninge, i. 327 f. 

 grucchinge, i. 234. 



knouleclringe, i. 123 f: ii. 25 f: iii. 34 f. 

 lesinge, i. 65 f, 213 f. 

 likmge, i. 58 f, 173 f. 



lokinge, i. 65 f. 



mishandlmge, ii. 189. 

 spekmge, iii. 252. 



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tidinge, i. 327 : ii. 243 f, 385. 

 welwil Tinge, i. 355 f. 



Steven (S. stefn), i. 144, 195; ii. 30, 253, 326; iii- 

 30 ; in all these cases rhymed with heven, and 

 therefore uncertain. 



