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OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF GOWER'S CONFESSIO AMANTIS. 



ADJECTIVES. 



§ 27. Adjectives which end in a vowel in Saxon, 



end in e in Gower. 



blithe (S. Wipe), ii. 333 f : iii. 306 f. 



a-cale (S. a-cele), iii. 296 f, 303 f. 



clone (S. cltene), ii. 126, 187, 336 (2 cases), 354. 



dere (S. deore), ii. 249 f : iii. 359 f. 



derne (S. derne), i. 107 f. 



drie (S. dryge, dry), i. 234 : ii. 266 : iii. 3, 10. 



fre (S. freo, fri), i. 107 f. 



grene (S. grene), ii. 30, 82 f : iii. 131 f, 158 f, 352 f, 

 357. 



kinde, 



unkinde 

 mete, 



unmete 



} (S. cynde), ii. 85, 145 £ 149, 291, 292. 

 (S. maete), i. 163 : ii. 166 f, 199 f, 332 f : 



Wis. ir 



I 111 



, > in. 



42 f, 260 f. 



milde, • » (S. milde, mild), i. 84 f, 195 : iii. 65 f, 



uimii 



tide, S 



309 f. 



neisshe (S. hnesce, nesc), ii. 284 f. 



newe (S. niwe), i. 3 : ii. 20, 188, 270 : iii. 9. 



softe (S. sufte, soft), i. 71 : ii. 40 f, 47 f, 328 f : iii. 



351 f, 365 (2 cases), 

 sterne (S. sterne), i. 113, 361 f : iii. 289. 

 stille (S. stille), i. 321 f: ii. 6, 102, 133: iii. 28, 



350 f, 352 f. 



swete (S. swete), ii. 107 f, 332 f, 353 f : iii. 8, 110 f, 



°m i 



thicke (S. piece), iii. 90. 



thinne (8. J>ynne), i. 102 f. 



trewe, 



untrewe, 



(S. treowe), ii. 88 f, 223, 224 f, 281 f, 



282, 332. 



un 



147 f. 



impotens), i. 312 f : iii. 



yare (S. gearu), ii. 237 f, 315 f : iii. 335 f. 

 fore (i. 312, the fore stempne) is the prefi 



all- (al-) one, is from the S. definite form ana 



lus : ii. 45, 99, 111, 293 (and thus alone there he 



lay), 360 : iii. 72 f, 141 f, 231, 329. 

 So one, in at least one case : and rather shall an 



one man, iii. 231 : so perhaps, iii. 213, for he 



stent one for hem alle. . 



§ 28. The following adjectives and adjective 

 pronouns, though ending in a consonant in Saxon, 



termination 



nouns 







a. alle (S. eall, all), i. 6, 8 (for alle reson wolde this), 

 36, 38, 84 : ii. 17, 88, 288 (2 cases), etc. 



hare (S. haer), ii. 12 f, 40 f, 181 f, 260 f, 286 (than 

 wolde a bare straw amount) : iii. 371 f. 



bleche (S. blac), ii. 210 (some on(e) for she is pals 



and bleche). 







cam ther lad(de). 



brode (S. brad), ii. 107 (ful oft whan it is brode 

 day). 



knight). 



fi 



;Iaed), L 211 (1 



fi 



to live), 47 f. 



grete (S. great), i. 251 : ii. 345 (so great e lust in 

 her he had). 



leve (S. leof ), ii. 324 (do Tereu3 no more greve 



than slee his child, which was so leve). 

 lewde (S. lsewed), iii. 2 (of him that is a lewde 



man), 6, 147, 343. 

 like, liche (S. -lie), i. 25 f, 261 f, 268 f : ii. 124 f, 



379 (so that he was of children riche, so ther- 



of was no man him liche). 

 longe (S. lang, long), ii. 251 (for huge time it 



so befell), 

 lowe (S. lah), i. 84 f, 124 f, 299 f : ii. 294 (an 



ape which at thilke throwe, whan that the cor- 



de cam down lowe). 



folii), 368. 



Id) 



one 



* 



(som(e) 

 3.(?) 



ide) 



(and 



calle). 



07 



* The common forms are on, o. The misspelling one con- 



don, ii. 375. 



John 



sernblaunce 



of o nature, ofon(e) accord(e), ii. 77. 

 they knelen alle and with on(e) vois, ii. 206 

 was non but Nestor hem answerde, i. 340. 

 non such time, ii. 10. 



o occurs, ii. 202, 204, 209, 283, etc. 



