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OBSERVATION ON THE LANGUAGE OP GOWER-'S CONFESSIO AMANTIS. 



pacionco, i. 302, 316. 

 pa ige, i. 223 : ii. 65. 



pers6n\ ii. 202. 



pestilence, ii. 346. 



phisujne. i. 265. 



place, i. 93, 151, 154, 164, 331, 332, 351. 



pompe, iii. 382. 



Rome, i. 282 f : ii. 195 (2 cases), 196 (3 cases), etc. 



spume, ii. 265. 



vice, i. 1 57, 167 : ii. 87. 



virglne, ii. 186. 



ymage, i. 34 : ii. 178, 179. 



A few exceptions, after the sounds r and s, are 



cited under § 84 and §91,/. 



So in adjectives : 



chaste, iii. 234, 244 f. 

 double, i. 181 : iii. 187. 

 hughe (Fr. ahuge), i. 236. 

 invisible, ii. 247. 



nice (= foolish), ii. 22, 285 : iii. 180, 222 f. 

 riche, iii. 228, 249, 327. 

 solenipne, iii. 327, etc., etc., etc. 



§ 20. The Genitive Case, Singular, ends in es. 





" 



loves, iii. 85, 98. 



nightes, iii. 96, 217, 290 



mannes, iii. S6, 93, 147. daies, iii. Ill, 113. 

 goddes, iii. 88, 166, 175. bulles, iii. 119. 

 worldes, iii. 90, 144, 149. kinges, iii. 146, 147, 151 



wives, in. i3. 



The 

 nation. 



Dec. I. *the cliirche keie, 

 *mone light, iii. 109. 

 iii. 109. 



i. 10. 



But, the mones cercle, 



9 



iC 



ii 



hest, i. 84. 

 selve, i. 228. 



doughter, ii. 



227. 



" mercy, ii. 118. 



my lady side, i. 160. ladies lovers, i. 228. 

 this lady name, ii. 



157. 

 my lady chere, ii. 



213. 

 my lady kith[e], 



ft • • ■»/ 



in.* 5. 

 my lady good, iii. 

 30. 



So, the horse (II. 1) side, i. 40, 119. 



*horse halters, ii. 47. 

 *horse knave, ii. 48. 

 horse hed, ii. 49. 



heven (II. 2) mede, ii. 187 : heven cope, iii 

 102. 



heven king, iii. 228, etc., "etc. 

 the helle (II. 3) king, ii. 97, 165. 

 his soule (II. 3) helthe, i. 39. 

 soule hele, i. 29, 371/ 



So, fader, brother, mother, doughter (as in Saxon). 

 fader halve, i. 209. But, faders life, i. 157. 



faders day, i. 214. 

 brother doughter, i. 199. brothers herte, i. 214. 

 the mother barm (6), i. moders discipline, ii 



289. 354. 



his moder breast, i. 348. 

 moder side, i. 352. 

 his moder salve, ii. 229. 

 doughter sake, i. 208. doughters speche, i. 



.150. 

 So, many proper nouns in -s, as in Anglo-Saxon 



and Modern English. 



Polyphemus love, i. 166. 

 Bachtts wode, ii. 358. 

 Phebus temple, iii. 250, etc. 





§ 21. The Plural of Noims. Nominative. 



* 



The Nominative Plural is formed for the most part in es. 



weii : s. iii. 102. 



tirannies, iii. 207. 



thewes, iii. 85. 

 soules, iii. 87. 

 hilles, iii. 93, 102. 

 formes, iii. 87. 



philo^phres, iii. 124, 135. 



iires, iii. 96. 

 lores, iii. 85. 

 aterres, iii. 91, 106. 

 * Some of these, perhaps, should be resra 



to beres, tigres, apes, oules, iii. 50. 



droppes, iii. 94. 



herbes, iii. 161. 



t 



• ■ * 



lives, f iii. 278. 



wives, f iii. 278 : i. 209. 

 turves, ii. 262, 283. 

 bokes, iii. 87, 91, 160. 



clerkes, iii. 88, 96. 

 beinges, iii. 87. 



thinges, iii. 88, 91, 146. 



notes, in. 90. 



frostes, iii. 94. 



bestes, iii. 101. 



flodes, iii. 104. 



cloudes, iii. 93, 94. 



hevedes (=: heads), iii. 249. 



month es, iii. 118. 

 mouth es, iii. 174. 



m 



nouns. 



ompound 



t Sing, lef, i. 189: lif(e), i. 143 : wif, ii. 289. The v in 

 the plural may be a case of Pauli's " restoration of the orthog- 

 raphy." 



