THE KIMES IN THE AUTHENTIC POEMS OF WILLIAM DUNBAR. 



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8 75. 3. i + c rimes with 



a) ON. y. 



I : sky, 192, 15. 



b) OF. i or ie. 



I :cry, 118, 7. 192, 27. 

 I : bellamy, 192, 26. 

 I :Lombardy, 195, 102. 



c) OF. e. 



I : army, 195, 101. 



§ 76. 4. i + g rimes with 



a) itself. 



dughty : worthy, 292, 20. wry (?) 172, 303. 



b) OF. i and ie. 



dughty : worthy : cry, 292, 20. 

 style (stile) : vyll, 86, 38. 

 purspyk : heretyk : lunatyk, 179, 375. 

 nyne : devyne, 42, 31. 



S 77. i + ld. rimes with 



a) OE. y. 



wyld : fyld, 167, 237 



b) OF. i. 



d) OE. or ON. I. 

 I : by, 279, 24. 



purspyk : lyk, 177, 366. 307, 12. tyk (ON. tik), 

 177, 366. 



e) OE. y + g. 



I : dry, 96, 70. 



f) ON. i + k. 



nicker ; sicker : wicker : bickarr, 212, 41. 



c) OE. e = WS Ie. 

 worthy : nye, 90, 52. 



d) ON. i + g. 



worthy : prudently, 90, 50. 



e) OE. i. 



styll (NE. stile) : wyll, 86, 38. 



begyled : wyld, 167, 237. 

 c) Gk. v. 



styled : wyld, 1 67, 237. 



It is difficult to say whether the long i and y in MSc. represented a diphthongal 

 sound at this time, or merely a long i sound. But the occasional use of such rimes as 

 styll, which is now and was, probably, on account of the absorbed g, also then long, with 

 the undoubted short wyll (unless wyll be also long, being NE. wile, device, and not NE. 

 will), might incline us to the idea that the sound was not yet diphthongal, because in 

 that case the rime would be a bad one, and not merely an imperfect one, like in quality, 

 but differing in quantity. Before Id we have the usual lengthening of the vowel. 



§ 78. ON. i + g. (terminations ly and lie) rimes with 



a) OE. ig. (see 76). 

 womanly : ly, 243, 29. 



b) OE. I. 

 hairtf ully : by, 72, 36. 

 lustily ' : „ 104, 53. 

 wretchitly : „ 251, 21. 



c) OE. i + c. 

 I : womanly, 279, 23. 



d) OE. 55. (see 69). 

 besalie : mischeifaislie : see, 118, 17. 



e) OE. ae. (see § 21.) 



f) OF i and ie. 

 lustely : fantesy, 104, 49. 

 wretchitly : fy, 251, 24. 



§ 79. i + ng. 



a) with itself in all participles and verbal nouns, 



which also rime with Fr. ign and ring : sing, 



94, 30. 215, 105. 

 ring : thing, 215, 113. bring, 215, 111. 

 spring : nothing : inbring, 108, 161. 



b) Fr. ign. 



bening : sing : thing, 368, 28. 

 ring, 94, 33. sing, 94, 30, etc., etc. 



womanly : cry, 279, 27. malady : veraly : hestely, 

 261, 59. 

 h) OF. me ? or Spanish guia. 



guye : prudently, 90, 53. 



gy : womanly, 279, 11. 

 i) ON. i. 



airly : harbry, 71, 14. 

 k) OE. y + g. 



airly : dry, 71, 16. 



hairtfully : dry, 72, 37. 

 1) ON. y. 



lustely : sky, 104, 50. 

 m) OE. I + g. wy (OE. wiga) : womanly, 279, 11. 

 n) OE. y. 



womanly : ky (NE. cattle), 279, 11. 



c) O.Nhumb. i— WS. eo. 



3ing : spring, 99, 151. 108, 154. 



3ing : sing, 111, 245. thing, 370, 17. thring, 370, 17. 



d) OE. e + ng. 



ring : sprynge (dance), 215, 19. 



e) OF. egn. 



inbring : ryng (reign), 390, 19. 



