THE RIMES IN THE AUTHENTIC POEMS OF WILLIAM DUNBAR. 



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way, ME. sweye) = swing. There seems, indeed, to be a difference between the English 

 and Scotch w, as the latter has not the same influence on a following a as the English. 

 It would thus seem as though the Scotch w lacked the vowel element, or had a different 

 (lighter) vowel element from the English. * 



S 47. 2. not before r rimes with 



a) itself. 



weidis : meidis, 104, 55. deid (OE. se = NE. deed) : 



dreid, 245, 82. 296, 13. 

 upspreidis : meidis, 104, 59. threidis : meidis, 104, 



59. deid : weid, 221, 4. 

 sweit (NE. sweat) : bleit (bleat), quheit (OE. 



hwaete), 117, 330. 

 weid : dreid, 239, 11. reid : seid : weid (OE. wied), 



221, 12. gredy : dredy, 372, 57. 

 red :cled (see NED.), 269, 43. 

 speiche : leiche (OE. laece), 308, 34. ever : never, 



118, 4. 



b) OE. ae, mut. of a (see § 50). 



c) OE. ea. 



weid (OE. waed) : neid, 170, 268. leidis : heidis 



(NE. bead), 79, 17. 

 dreid : neid, 239, 15. deid (NE. deed) : deid (NE. 



dead), 363, 103. 



d) OE. e, mut. of o (see § 47). 

 meit (adj.) : feit, 149, 14. 



speid : weid : reed : leid : 3eid : seid, 221, 4. dreid : 

 speid, 352, 31. meit (OE. germete) : feit, 139, 

 13. sueit, 353, 75. 



e) OE. 5o. 



meidis (OE. aj) : reidis (OE. hreod) : weidis : up- 

 spreidis, 104, 55. 

 ever : levir, 138, 95. deid : forbid, 118, 12. 



f) OE. e : 



spredding : bedding, 175, 334. 

 leist : beste, 96, 71. speicbe : streiche (OE. strec), 

 308, 31. 



deill (je) : weill, 75, 25. seill (OE. aesl) : weill, 42, 

 61. 

 g) OE. ae : 



agast : mast, 136, 27. 

 h) Fr. or Lat. e. 



meter : discreter, 202, 9. 



unhelit : conselit (NE. conceal), 355, 23. glemis : 

 breimis (OF. bresme), 103, 32. 



leid : remeid, 131, 8. reid (raedan) : pleid : remede : 

 75, 37. 



ever : dissever, 118, 5. 



never : „ 211, 22. 



deid : remeid, 363, 101. posseid, 296, 15. proceid, 

 281, 41. 



lene (NE. adj. = lean) : ref rene, 73, 20. 



leist : beist, 96, 71. 



leve : escheve : greve, 244, 45. 

 i) Fr. a. 



agast : trespast, 36, 31. past, 81, 1. 118, 18. 



last : past, 43, 79. 

 k) OE. e - . 



bleit : eit, 175, 330. 



reid : steid, 75, 41. leidis : beidis (OE. (ge)bedu = 

 NE. bead), 79, 17. deidis : steidis (OE. stede), 

 246, 93. reid (OE. raedan) : steidis, 75, 41. 

 1) Gen. OE., etc., e. 



deidis : meidis (OE. med), 250, 4. 

 m) OE. a. 



deid : manheid, 296, 12. womanbeid, 118, 11. 

 n) OE. i. 



evin (OE. aefen) : schrevin, 128, 7. 



Angl. e = WS. ea. 



48. before gutturals, rimes with 



a) OE. eo. 



bene : ene (eyes), 353, 58. 

 ene : sene, 352, 52. 314, 8. 



„ fyftene, 352, 34. 



„ : between, 352, 34. 

 hie : be, 295, 95. 

 e (eye) : be, 171, 290. 

 „ : he, 214, 75. the, 395, 79. 

 „ : ble, 171, 293. 

 „ : fe, 214, 79. 



b) OE. e mut. of o. 



ene : grene, 93, 9. 110, 206. 



eyne : quene, 370, 39, 43. ene : shene, 110, 203. 

 225, 107. 



ene : kene, 110, 203. 



c) Gen. OE. e. 



hie : 3e, 139, 3. E : me, 83, 43. 

 „ : me, 84, 83. 289, 75. 



d) O. Fr. or Lat. e. 



E : degree, 96, 87. nativite, 294, 74. 

 hie : strenuite, 295, 94. E. ene; splene, 94, 12. 

 ,, : qualitie, 84, 88. 



e) OE. fie 



ene : clene, 225, 106. 



f) ON. 0y. 



de : e, 171, 292. 295, 77. 



* When one forms the lips into the position for pronouncing w (or wh), and then blows or whistles, one produces 

 either an w-sound, as in the exclamation " Whew !" or an i-sound, as in whistling a high note, and this may be the differ- 

 ence between the English w, which gives from a, au, and the Scotch, which gives from e an ?-sonnd. 



