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goth astraied, ii. 132 : iii. 175 (goth astray, 



same page), 

 hem that stonden misbeleved, ii. 152. . 



We find he cam ride, i. 53 : ii. 45, 170, where 

 the ride looks more like the infinitive than like the 

 participle : cam ridend, present partic, ii. 180, 



47. 



and lefte hem both[e] ligge so, ii. 150, is another 



extraordinary case of the use of an infinitive' 



sight in a peculiar American (?) use : 



a wonder sight of flowers, i. 121. 



slide, let, in the modern vulgar sense : 



the highe creator . . . full many chaunce let 

 slide, iii. 61. 



the, repeatedly used by Gower with abstract nouns 

 etc., one of his gallicisms : 



the man (=Phomme), ii. 186. 



the men (= les hommes), i. 9 : iii. 61, 188. 



the mankinde (= le genre humain), iii. 1. 



thexperience, i. 14 : the speche, iii. 136. 



the blisse, iii. 276 : the trouthe, iii. 136. 



the word, iii. 135, 138: the derth and the 



famine, ii. 270. 

 the gold can make of hate love, ii. 135. 

 the heven, i. 207 : ii. 159, 185, 362, etc. 

 the helle, ii. 128, 139, 164 : iii. 47, etc. 

 Even the God, iii. 177, 187, 201, 204, 223. 



etc., etc. 



Time : these expressions are somewhat remarkable. 



within a monthe day, ii. 27. 

 within two monthes day, ii. 100. 

 sometime a (Sax. on) yere, iii. 349. 



world, in various senses, = worldly lot, worldly 

 happiness, etc. 



as he that hath his worlde acheved, i. 126. 

 whan that he weneth best acheve 

 his gode world, it is most fro, iii. 170. 

 her world was so miswent, ii. 304. 



to set a king in even 

 bothe in his worlde and eke in heven, iii. 152. 

 all he* worlde on him she sette, ii. 249. 

 what worldes (= worldly) thing(e) [that] thou 



wolt crave, i, 323 : ii. 313. 

 that ye my worldes (natural, bodily) deth 



respite, i. 116. 



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So in the Wyf of Bathe's Tale : 



unto this day it doth myn herte boote, 

 that I have had my world as in my tyme. (1 T. 

 6055. 



§ 110. Peculiar Order of Woki>s. 



of his visage and seeth the rnak for and seeth the 



make of, i. 367. 

 with Frixus and this shep(e) forth swam, for and 



this shef> swam forth with, ii. 273. 

 with slepe and both his vy « fedde,/or and f<dd§ 



both his eyen with, iii. , r >2. 

 out of his purs and that he nom(c),/or and that hi 



nom out, etc., ii. 298. 



So, i. 37, 56: m 109; 857 1. 17, :««] ^ iii. 



37, 75, 215, 216, L' :.*, 868, el 



as thou might of to-fore rede, for rede of to-fore^ 



iii. 342. 



of gold that I the mantel tok(e),/br the mantel of 



gold, 



of, i. 34. 



jf man, for man i« <*au§e 



fi 



with 



kinges herte with, i. 115. 



for to tendre 





aslepe with, i. 19* 



fi 



fi 



with 



300, 330, 334 



and him upon her herbes cast[e], for upon 

 etc., ii. 263. 



fi 



helle, i. 189. 



now, for now on daies (now-a-days) 



59. 



now, for now-a~daies, i. 307 

 his world or emperesses, fo 



of all etc., iii. 363. (?) 



/< 



white, forsake, ii. 335. 

 e kinges doughter Lam 

 kinges, doughter, ii. 375. 



fi 



§ 111. Ellipsis. 



Of the relative pronoun 



andjspeake of thing(e) [that] is nought so Strang. 



i. 41. 



