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MR HENRY BELLYSE BAILDON ON 



§ 88. This rime, like knight : white, is from the poem " In Honour of the City of 

 London " (see above), and is clearly meant to be read in English fashion, as in the 

 characteristic Scotch pronunciation, the I in gold is dropped and the word pronounced 

 ou (gowd, goud), and is so written by Burns in 16 out of 36 times he uses the noun or 

 adjective. 



§ 89. 2. Before r + cons. 



a) OE. o. 



morrow : borrow : sorrow, 73, 1G0. 



„ : sorrow, 94, 29. 

 morn : thorne, 383, 38. 

 corse ( — cross) : horse, 175, 337. 

 corne : morne, 319, 62. 

 corss ( = corpse) : horss, 131, 80. 



b) OF. and Lat. o. 

 forthir, 137, 55. 



hornis : unicornis, 97, 109. 



c) OF. a. 



hornis : skornis, 97, 107. 

 home : scorne, 176, 343. 

 corn : „ 319, 64. 



§ 90. O + ht rimes with 



a) itself. 



For o + nk see § 9. 



b) + ht (see§ 93). 



O before other consonants rimes in all cases with 



a) itself, and with 

 OF. and Lat. o. 



croce : force : voce : indoce, 379, 2. 

 fox : mokkis, 209, 45. 

 cot : note, 260, 16. 

 throt : „ 260, 19. 



b) OX. o. 



rockis : fox, 209, 47. 

 god : tod, 36, 41. 80, 37. 



cok : dok, 179, 376. 

 god : od, 82, 39. 



c) OE. o. 



oft : soft, 217, 8. 



d) OE. eo. 



thrott : schot, 130, 64. 



e) OF. ou. 



word : bourde, 202, 5. 245, 84. 



The rimes rokkis : mokkis : fox, 209, 45, is a good proof, if one were required, of the 

 silence of the i in plurals and in the third person singular in is, when it suits the poet's 

 purpose. In the interior of his lines, Dunbar avails himself perpetually of this licence 

 of either treating this as a distinct syllable or eliding the i, just as in modern English 

 verse most poets make free with the termination -ed, and pronounce or elide the e as it 

 suits them, with certain exceptions, of course. 



§ 91. 1. not followed by ht or g rimes with 



a) itself. 



ado : to, 75, 36. 356, 51. 



don : mone : sone : soon, 211, 10. 219, 47. 



bruke : shuke : hike : tuke, 111, 228. 



kuke : tuke : bruke, 223, 60. 



uder : muder : tuder, 73, 14. 



udder : f udder, 130, 61. 



gud : vud (mad), 45, 16. 196, 142. etc. 



„ :Hude :, 196, 141. 



„ : rude, 197, 170. 

 dois : (?) russ (praise), 260, 37. 

 vud : hude, 196, 141. 



u- 



woid (mad) : gud, 272, 48. 



,, : blude : ganestude, 377, 60. 

 do : to, 73, 22. 340, 37. 

 sone (sun) : undone, 116, 89. 

 wouke : schuke : luke : buke, 114, 34. 

 tuke : nuke : ruke, 132, 111. 

 blude : gud, 121, 4. 



„ : guid, 278, 10. 



b) OE. o. 



toe : smowk (OE. smoca), 241, 43. 

 nuke : tuke : ruke : smoke, 133, 120. 



c) OE. u (see § 97). 



