THE LANGUAGE OF GOWER's CONFBB8IO AMANTIS 



305 



written wheder, ii. 121, though contracted. 





frevr) exiled, iii. 247, 



seems to be a case of two contractions, 

 and tarie ( ss tar') thou in my court no more, iii. 

 373, is essentially like the above cases. 



Letter (i 192, 193, 194, 201, twice: iii. 313, 

 314), monster, tender, if spelt in the French 

 way, could jbe treated as cases of simple elision, 

 and adder (derived like laddre, iii. 330, from a 

 Saxon feminine) might also be written with -re. 

 Chambre, it will be observed, though written in the 

 French way, is contracted to a monosyllable, as if 

 spelt with er; or pronounced, as in French prose, 

 with the e mute. 



§ 94. * The vowel is elided under similar cir- 

 cumstances in the syllable -en. 



men shulden it in the prestes finde, i. 76. 

 as they that wolden his thank deserve, i. 79. 

 they treten and axen of her wille, i. 250. 

 to geten hem helpe, and ate laste, i. 339. 

 to vengen him at his owne will[e], i. 345. 

 unnethe stonden in any doubt [e], i. 364. 

 a woman upon an hors behinde, ii. 46. 

 such wepon also for him she dight[e], ii. 306. 

 I shall rehercen unto thin ere, iii. 19. 



§ 95. The third person singular of the Pres- 

 ent Indicative is frequently found with an unpro- 

 nounced e in the termination, and perhaps should 

 be written without this letter, as commonly in 

 Saxon. Following the printed copy, we may de- 

 scribe the e as elided. 



which speketh of Peter and of John, i. 64. 

 which maketh the hertes eyen blinde, i. 68, 156. 

 he wepethy he crieth, he axeth grace, i. 120. 

 but she, that kepeth the blinde whel(e), i. 126. 



(qy- 



drink 



but taketh what thing cometh next to honde, iii 



280. 



e ariseth (arist ?) of the service, ii 

 § 96. Miscellaneous Contractions. 



yet in the bible this name is bore, 136. 



ther(e) may no trewe quarel arise, ii. 223. 



the devil that lieth in helle fast, iii. 203. 



and so distempred and so esmaied, i. 281. 



the womb<5 hath two, the heved hath thre, iii. 117, 



119. 



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the heved planeta is nought to wite, in. 376. 

 till augst bo passed and m «t.hm, iii. 370, 

 unto this sign* ib augst applied, i 121. 

 Sortes [Socrates] and Pla with him come, iii. 3C6. 



Benedicite ia not contra* i- 1, as in Chaucer : 



and saidc, bm$dioitt f 

 my sone, of the felicite, L 48. 



§ 97. Contiguous words are not often Mended, 

 but some cases occur. 



fall it (falPt) to the b< te or to the wont[if], ii 



380. 



it is (it's) unto love DO disport(e), iii. 848b 



my sone, I havS (I've) herd(e) of thy matere, ii. 



61. 

 I might amende that is (that's) amis, iii. 247. 



§97*, a. Accent. — Many wordi of French 

 origin have a finable accent: the same is occa- 

 sionally true of native words. The eliding < mal 

 e often causes the accent to be thrown back. 



res6n, i. 333, 360 : ii. reson, i. 352, 357 : ii. 



131 : iii. 272. 

 purpos, i. 134, 1 

 labour, ii. 82. 

 colour, i. 225. 

 revers, i. 230. 



1 2< ). 



260 



labour, ii. 80 

 colour, i. 133. 

 revers, i. 107. 



power, i. 345, 347: ii. power, L 341, 359: i 



187 : iii. 353. 

 daunger, i. 331, 332. 

 forest, ii. 68. 

 poverte, i. 3^7. 

 vertii, ii. 187. 



106. 



daunger, i. 331. 

 forest, i. 1 1 0, 142 ; 

 jtoverte, i. 355. 



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kn 



i] >p]ant 



237 



65. 

 visage, i. 237 f. 



visage, i. 227 : ii. i 



4, 



341 



206, etc. 



343 



383: iii. 1-7. 176. 



ded). 



33 



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f, 22, 88, fortune 



210. 



This section corresponds to § 99 of the paper on Chau 

 cer, there wrongly put among the Miscellaneous Note*. 



