306 



OBSEKVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF GOWER S CONFESSIO AMANTIS 



com une, i. 20 f : iii. 152 f/c6mun, i. 7, 9, 16, 55, etc. 



159 f. 

 enviotis, i. 171, 174 f, envious, i. 172, 173, 217. 



175. 



l&vers, i. 175, 228. lovers, i. 64, 227, 238. 



knswere, i. 331 : iii. 305. answere, i. 96 f, 97, 146 f, 



331, etc. 

 wdrthy, i. 226 : ii. 290. worthy, i, 107 f : ii. 224. 



lady, i. 332 : ii. 225. 

 ayein, i. 81, 88. 

 felkw, i. 170, 171. 



lady, i. 332 : ii. 227, 279. 

 ayein, iii. 61, 237. 

 felaw, i. 171 : ii. 208. 



Achilles, ii. 62, 127, 232. Achilles, ii. 58, 227, 229 



Apoll6, ii. 366. 



Apollo, ii. 367. 



Noe, ii. 181 f : iii. 133 f, N6e, iii, 102, 278. 



278. 

 Jas6n, ii. 251, 253. 

 Le6, iii. 121, 127 f. 



Jason, ii. 250, 253. 

 Leo, iii. 120. 



Venus iii. 122, 131 f. Venus, iii. 119, 123, 126. 



Echates, 200* 



Echates, ii. 262. 



Proper names of Latin origin have generally the 



Medea, 



Anchises 



4 : Aprille, ii. 327. 

 We find " was inhabited here and there," i. 324. 



b> At this point it is proper to say that in all 

 likelihood some troublesome forms in Grower are to 

 be explained as simple licenses. Such, very proba- 

 bly, are the cases of the singular of the Imperfect 

 of Complex Verbs which have an e (§ 54, a). So 

 when verta, ii. 38, 187, is stretched to vertue, i. 7, 

 IS; when the proposition for is made to rhyme 

 with bore, ii. 59, the pronoun min with mine, ii. 

 130, the noun men(e) (Ft. mot/en) with lene, ii. 

 351, (if thou well) bethought with nought, iii. 357, 

 (I) sigh with eye, iii. 370, oxes (elsewhere oxen) 

 with foxes, ii. 63, perhaps all that it is necessary to 

 say is that a clumsy poet has taken an extraordi- 

 nary liberty. Such shortening of words as pusilla- 

 mite for pusillanimite, ii. 12, 25 : iii. 210, Climestre 



for Clytemnestre, 



Metamorpl 



is rather to be attributed to ignorance; so Aga- 

 menon for Agamemnon, Nanplus for Nauplius, etc. 

 The vowels are not infrequently freely treated in 

 the rhymes : e. g., minde, ende, ii. 23, 67 ; ende, 

 kende (i. e. kinde), iii. 120 ; nine, peine, ii. 261 ; 

 seen, eyen, iii. 18 ; say, see, iii. 31 ; wit, yet ; fell, 

 hill ; men, kin, ii. 158 : iii. 211, 280 ; kenne, senne 

 (i. e. sinne), ii. 309 ; spedde, hadde, ii. 191 ; deth, 

 geth (i. e. goth, i. 345, Sax. gseS), ii 303 : i. 220, 

 247 ; piche, suche, iii. 312, etc. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



§ 98. Letters. 



a. 



ch. for Saxon c, (k) 



- « 



cases where modern English has the primitive 

 sound. 



secbe (= seek), i. 290 : ii. 190, 193. 

 reccheth (= recketh), i. 168 : ii. 284. 

 worchen (= work), i. 166 : ii. 142. 

 scbenche (= skink), i. 263. 

 bishopriche (= bishopric), i. 10. 



licb, licbe (= like), i. 118, 136, 258, 265. 

 So besi-liche, ii. 3, 43 ; even-liche, ii. 179, etc., 

 now shortened to -ly. 



Saxon c (k) not changed to t as in modern 

 English: make (=mate), i. 45, 112, 367. 

 changed to tt, w 

 English, fette (S. 



fette (S. feccan 

 We find chever 



cc 



modern 



fetch), ii. 233, 237. 



shiver, iii, 9. 



b. Saxon g changed to y, where we have re- 

 tained g. 



ey (S. seg, E. egg), iii. 76, 105. 

 yaf, yive, yove (gave, &c), i. Ill, 114, 127. 

 foryete (forgotten), ii. 129, foryetelnesse, ii. 19. 

 ayein (again), i. 83, 88. 



On the other hand, 



ligge (S. licgan, E. lie), ii. 73, 218. 

 bigge (S. bycge, E. buy), ii. 187 : a-begge, i. 340, 



a-bey, ii. 40. 



gg (S. eg) where we have the sound j (dg), brigge 

 (S. brycg), ii 201 : iii. 160. 



gh (S. h), where we spell with w : slough (slew), 

 i. 165: fleigh (flew), ii. 335: iii. 96: with- 

 drough (drew), iii. 103 (drowe, iii. 198). 



Saxon g changed to w, where we have y. 



dawes (S. dagas, days), i. 136 : ii. 113, 176 : iii* 

 182, 183. 







