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OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF GOWER'S CONFESSIO AMANTIS- 



[that] 



[that] 





n [that] 

 [that] v 



So, men beseche [what] his will is, ii. 25. 



Of the personal pronoun, when subject. 



it thought her faire and [she] saide here, ii. 45* 



for than is all my merth away, 



and [I] waxe anone of thought so dull, iii. 6. 



slain I have 

 this maide Thaise and [she] is begrave, iii. 325. 

 and tho for fere her herte aflight, 

 and [she] saide to her self helas, ii. 50. 

 I have it mad(e) as thilke same, 

 which [J] axe for to be excused, iii. 383. 

 of Demephon right wel her quemeth, 

 whan he was come, and [she] made him chere, ii. 



26. 

 he was rebuked of hem and [they] saiden, ii. 



150. 



the king cam with his knightes alle, 



and [they] maden him glad welcoming, ii. 255. 



thre men he tok(e), . . . 



and [they] ete and dranke as well as he, iii. 40. 



whan they this straunge vessel sigh 



come in, and [it] hath his saile avaled, iii. 329. 



the firste point of slouth I calle 



Lachesse, and [it] is the chef(e) of alle, ii. 1. 



that if [it] ne were [for] his oignement, ii. 251. 



Of be y and other verbs, after shall. • 

 it is said and ever shal [be], i. 15. 



that it is in my herte loke 

 • and ever shall [be], i. 222. 

 all idel was I never yit, 



ne never shall [be], ii. 39. 



the god was ever and ever shall [be], iii. 88 



190, 351. 



I wot never whider I shall [go], ii. 21. 



that they with him to Tharse sholde [go], iii 



327. 



which wepte as she to water sholde [turn], iii. 

 260. 



and what she sholde [become, come to] she was 

 adrad, iii. 321. 



Of with :* (but note that the instrument, &c, are 

 expressed in Saxon with the Ablative, either with 

 or without the proposition mid = with, and that 



[ these are probably cases of the old construction.) 



thing which he said [with] his owne mouth, 



ii. 310 : iii. 155. 

 fightend, [with] his owne hondes slain, i. 90. 

 made cloth [with] her owne hand, ii. 83, 190, 



204 : i. 346, 351 : iii. 305. 

 where he [with] his owne body lay, ii. 198 : 



iii- 208. 



Of other prepositions. 



I not what thing it may amounte [to ?] ii. 191, 



194, 321, 343 : iii. 54. 

 he no childe [of ?] his owne had, ii. 236. 

 for in the plit(e) [in] which I the finde, iii. 354 



(perhaps mere carelessness). 





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