638 MR HENRY BELLYSE BAILDON ON 



^ 16. 08) (spelt with o) rimes 



a) with itself. i b) Latin on 



stone : allone, 42, 17. allone : none, 348, 46. tone ! stone : dispone, 42, 49. 



(NE. taken), 350, 102. annone : postpone, 240, 28. 



bone : allone, 350, 110. allone : gone, 244, 63. 



2. a + m rimes with 

 a) OF. a and ai. hanie : clame, 229. 1. 



There is here also a clear distinction kept up between o and a spellings. The 

 rimes with Fr. ein and. ain, together with the spelling of trayne, grayne, etc., and the 

 fact that suffragane is sometimes spelt -ene in the rime syllable, point, I think, to the 

 fact that d + m or n is already e, or some intermediate sound that comes very near it. 

 Tane = taken occurs once as tone, riming with allone, and this, along with its appear- 

 ance in Clariodus and in Douglas, clearly shows it was an accepted form of the word, 

 however derived. Dr Curtis explains it as formed on a false analogy from apparently 

 similar forms in which ME. o corresponded to MSc. a [see Curtis, § 23. Gerken, § 20, 

 2)]. The occurrence of tone here seems quite to dispose of Brandl's argument 

 (Anzfd. A., 10, 333). 



^17. 3. a + w rimes with 



a) itself. 



thrawis : crawis, 176, 345. 



blawis : „ 225, 89. 



raw (NE. row (s)) : haw (OE. haga), 173, 309. 



b) OE. se + w 



crawis : mawis, 225, 89. 



c) OE. Baw, knawin : schawin (scSawian), 355, 13. 



d) a — hg (see § 3). 



e) eall. 



raw (s) : aw (NE. all), 173, 309. 

 blaw : waw, 166, 229. 



raw : gaw (OE. gealla) : aw : haw, 173, 306. 

 sawlis (OE. sawol) rimes with Pawlis (Paul's) 

 and brawlis (brawls). 



This form schawin from sceawian has been treated at great length by Dr Curtis 

 (§ 288, etc.) ; but the simple explanation of Sweet (HES., § 680) that the e-element 

 was absorbed by the preceding consonantal sound commends itself more to me, 

 especially when we remember that this preceding sound was palatalised by the in- 

 fluence of the e. It is even possible that, by a reversal of the process by which we 

 get tone, the Scottish scribes have written schaw to represent ME. schow. 



There seems little to notice here, unless it be the marked tendency in Scottish to 

 go ahead of English in the dropping of the consonantal /-sound. I do not know 

 whether this has been fully accounted for, but it may have been encouraged by French 

 influence, which was strong in Scotland about this time. 



§ 18. 4. a before r or r + consonant rimes with 



a) itself. 



mair : sair : 71, 17. etc. 



more : sore, 370, 49. hore (NE. old age), 371, 59. 



mair : swair (NE. swore), 84, 86. 



b) OE. a (see § 1). 



c) OE. Seg. 



ar ( = oar) : fare (adj.) (NE. fair) 89, 28. 

 fair : mair : 74, 5. 



d) OE. ae + r. 



mair : hair : 193, 48. 

 „ : war (v) (NE. were), 256, 10. 



