THE RIMES IN THE AUTHENTIC POEMS OF WILLIAM DUNBAR. 



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mair : thair (daer), 71, 15. 194, 68. 



e) OE. er. 



mair : demair (NE. deemer), 308, 42. 

 „ ■ Thesaurair, 230, 20. 



f) OE. o. soir (OE. sar) : befoir, 43, 86. lord : scorde, 



376, 55. 

 evermoir : befoir, 118, 20. 

 moir : befoir, 370, 49. 

 forelore : moir : befoir, 370, 49. 



g) OF. air or ar and Lat. ar. 



air : mair, 193, 36. are : compare, 89, 87. preclare, 

 89, 26. 



mair : compair, 84, 87. repair, 74, 2. Ill, 223. 



squair, 193, 48. 

 hair (OE. har, NE. old age) : squair, 106, 111. 

 193, 44. 

 h) OF. or Lat. o. 



lordis (OE. hlaford) : discordis : recordis, 227, 



11. 

 lord : remord, 269, 42. 

 „ : accord, 315, 22. 

 „ : corde, 376, 52. 

 ,, : deforde, 376, 53. 



The MSc. quhair and thair do not come from the forms hivcer and peer, but from 

 hwdr and par [Gerken, § 6. 6)]. The modern Scotch is not only often wher and ther t 

 but even whir and thlr. Whir may be due to preceding w (see § 46), and thlr may 

 have been influenced in turn by it. On the other hand, we have whaur, whar, and 

 whare (Burns), showing, in the first instance at least, the English w-influence, as we 

 may call it (see § 46). 



There can, I think, be no doubt that d + r = air is already sounded in MSc. er 

 (Luick, Untersuchungen, §§ 235, 260). For the spelling ai = e see Morsbach Gr., § 136, 

 Anm. 3 f, and Luick, Untersuch., §§ 359-61. 



§ 19. For a + ht=OE. awiht, nawiht see oht (§ 93). 



§ 20. a + st rimes with 

 a) OE. eo almoist : loist, 76, 61. | b) OF. o and Lat. o. almoist : indoist : coist, 76, 61- 



I take the syllable moist in almoist to come from OE. mast, as neither this nor the 

 Scottish maist can come from OE. mwst. 



M- 

 § 21. 1. Not followed by g, rimes with 

 a) itself, satt : fatt : that, 73, 6. 



M 



§ 22. rimes with 



a) itself, gaif : haif, 359, 25. blek : fek : sek (NE. 



sack), 116, 85. 



b) OE. 5. 



mast : blast, 136, 27. edder : ledder, 177, 368. 



c) OE. a (see § 18). 



h) OF. or Lat. e. 



blek : effek, 82, 31. weir (NE. war) : prisoneir, 

 116, 110. 

 k) OF. air-ar. 



bair (adj.) : repair, 171, 281. 



mad : sad, 304, 11. gaif : laif, 287, 46. weir : beir, ' 1) OE. eo war (OE. (ge) waer) : far, 36, 50. ar, 



350, 93. 

 m) OE. a : (see § 11). 

 n) OF. a. 



past : fast, 81, 2. 118, 18. 

 o) OE. eaht. ON. atr. 



rawchtir : lawchtir : slawchtir, 222, 37. 

 p) OE. £e + g. (see §23). 



129, 33. 



d) OE. a-(see§ 1). 



e) OF. ei. haif : persaif, 279, 17. dais : prais, 205, 46. 



f) OF. au, haif : saiff, 214, 90. 235, 18. 



g) OE. e. bak : quhattrak (NE. what reck), 140, 30. 



feddir (OE. 6) : eddir (OE. ae), 283, 8. 

 brak : frak, 111, 241. 

 neck : blek : 82, 34. hed (had) : sted (s) 126, 11. 



This is a very curious instance in which rafter (OE. rafter) has been confused 

 with words from OE. eaht, and where the scribe or printer has conformed it to the 

 spelling of the other words, while it seems more likely that laivchter and slaivchter had 

 the /-sound, like NE. laughter, than that rafter had a guttural spirant sound. 



