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of love hath within her warde, ii. 354, 



(but, in the next verse, Phebus to love hath so 

 constreigned). 



which kinde hath and reson can, i. 366, 



(but, just before, and either kind[e] hath suche 



a way). 

 b. if thou, my song, hast joie had, i. 167. 



of kinde hast formed to be liche, i. 268. 

 that thou at any time hast chid, i. 295. 

 which loves cause hast for to guide, i. 328. 

 now thou, my sone, hast herd this tale, i. 329. 

 whan thou the tale hast understonde, i. 342. 

 that thou to love hast don(e) er this, ii. 2. 

 which thou to love hast so dispended, ii. 62. 

 as thou, my sone, hast herd above, ii. 111. 

 my sone, hast thou such covetise, ii. 211. 

 how thou of love hast wonne smale, ii. 279, 325, 

 f 394. 



if thou, my sone, hast wone or lore, ii. 396. 



So, that with thy dart brennend[e] hast set a 

 fire, iii. 352. 



e. though I siknesse have upon honde, 

 and longe have had, yet wol I fonde, i. 5. 

 but I his grace have so pursued, i. 73. 

 that I misspoke have ought behinde, i. 178. 

 if I for love have ought don so, i. 224. 

 till they such love have underfonge, iii. 160. 

 and that the soule have holy nome, iii. 101. 

 as I now have and longe have had, i. 46. 

 for I no such brocage have used, ii. 283. 



Exceptions : 



and thanne have they love non(e), ii. 394. 

 qy. they have ? 



though thou victoire have on honde, iii. 166. 



qy. victoire have upon honde ? 

 and thus full ofte have I bought, i. 309. 



qy. I have full ofte ? 



The csesural pause may prevent elision in the last 

 two cases. See § 82. 



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d. Not often before have in the Infinitive- 

 s' g. his owne reule have upon honde, i. 318. 



of love have any proprete, ii. 394. 



ll[e] 



No 



he though te have and thus aboutes, iii. 162. 

 his lore have and in such wise, iii. 302. 

 lision at the end of the verse, 

 she said him that she wolde have, ii. 358. 

 shold everv P-entil herte have. ii. 50. 





he saide how treson shulde have, iii. 139 : i. 127. 

 and d< h a man Rr , { \ m(M ii* have, iii. 88. 

 and he it shall of y i ft e ham, i. 170. 

 for thou shalt of my yifte have, i. 323. 

 that lie the surplus mights have, iii. 24. 

 such on(e) there is 1 wolde have, ii. 211. 



beside thilke yma • hare, ii. 124. 

 e. Elision sometimes takes place before hadcto 



(had) : more frequently not. 



e. g. for he his love had so beguiled, i. 77. 



thus he which love had in dis-deigne L 121. 



and of the senile had made a cuppe, i. 128. 



wherof the sone had also fere, i. 285. 



the god an eye had unto this, ii. 149. 



this Adriagne had mochel fere, ii. 308. 

 But, was hote, hadde doughters thre, i. 55. 



the sceptre hadde for to right[e], i. 171). 



wher(e) they the quene hadden do, i. 201. 



that Rome hadde werres stronge, ii. 196. 



a werre had in jYopartie, ii. 200. 



so as the queue had hem preid(e), ii. 271. 



a sone had, and Androchee, ii. 302. 



victoire had upon his foe, iii. 165. 



which love hadde for to gie, iii. 364. 



Hadde often stands at the end of the ver»e, 

 and then there is no elision. • 



that he that time a werre had, i. 125. 

 if thou, my sone, hast joie had, i. 167. 

 wher(e) they the queue hadden do, i. 201. 

 and the Roinains that time hadde, i. 219. 

 was hote, and he a sone hadde, i. 313. 

 whom Anchises to sone hadde, ii. 4. 



for I whilom no love hadde, ii. 48. 



as he whiche all her hert« hadde, ii. 65. 



his lust, that he his wille hadde, ii. 169. 



So, ii. 35, 69, 169, 232, 2M, 303, 342 : 

 iii. 194, 226, 238, 271, 277, 283, 293. 



3. a. Before how. 



how trewe, how large, how juste, how chaste, iii 



272. 



he saide how that hetoken sholde, i. 25. 

 of my fortune how that it ferde, i. 45. 

 and of old time how it hath be, i. 78. 

 to teche how that obedience, i. 104. 

 I rede how that this proude vice, i. 123. 

 they shape how they to-gider mighte, i. 129. 

 and thenke how that I am nought mete, i. 175. 

 of Rome how that the gen til blood, i 199. 

 thfi waie knowe he shall £0, i. 233. 



