THE RIMES IN THE AUTHENTIC POEMS OF WILLIAM DUNBAR. 



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fyll : ill : still, 126, 7. 



kill : ill, 83, 56. 



hill : averill (1), 173, 313. 



will : thrill, 1325, 12. 



din : skin : win, 36, 59. 



thin : kin : win, 254, 17. 



think : stink, 150, 10. 



giddy : widdy : smydy, 223, 44. 



thin : within : skin, 277, 56. 



synnis : begynnis, 128, 19. 



hippis : lippis, 193, 53, etc. etc. 



list : unblist, 138, 99. 



dynt : flynt, 224, 80. 



stynt : „ 224, 80. 



win : tin, 316, 33. 



mirk : kirk, 86, 16. 



kiss : is : miss, 75, 20. 



„ : miss, 365, 145. 

 hippis : slippis, 124, 41. 



c) OE. e : 



dynt : stynt : hint, 224, 88. 



mynting (OE. myntan) : stynting : hynting (OK. 



hentan), 150, 4. 

 list : brist, 138, 102. 



d) OF. or Lat. e or ie. 

 list : resist, 138, 105. 



by (buy) : mercy, 368, 22. 



millaris : pudding-fillaris : gillaris : tutivillaris, 

 321, 76. 



e) OF. or Lat. e. 

 sin : gin, 317, 34. 

 think : ynk, 150, 12. 



mirry : wirry : chirry, 237, 21. 



f) OE. y. (seeg 112). 



g) OE. eo. 



lift : clift, 193, 49. 

 mirk : dirk (dark), 86, 15. 

 h) ON. io. 



myrth : girth : firth, 194, 79. 



§ 110. Averill is given by Jamieson as a diminutive from aver = an old cart-horse, 

 a meaning which fits admirably the passage in which it stands, but as averill in this 

 sense does not occur elsewhere, it has been suggested that the word is haverel (from 

 haver, to talk nonsense), and that it means here simply a worthless, foolish person. I 

 incline, on literary grounds, to the first supposition, especially as Dunbar was quite 

 capable of coining such a word for himself, as in the "Brash of Wooing" and "The 

 Flyting," where words occur which are nowhere else to be found. 



In the c) rimes we have again, as in the case of i + nt, rimes with e + nt (see § 72), 

 but in neither case are they quite conclusive. 



Sill, rimes with 

 o 



i) with ON. I : 



ON. Y : 



lift : thrift, 219, 48. 



§ 112. (OE. and ON.) rimes with 



a) itself. 



hyd : bryd, 173, 317. 

 myce : lyce, 310, 23. 



b) OE. or ON. I. 

 ky : by, 278, 3. 



hyde (v), glyde, 226, 128. 

 pryd : wyd : besyd, 82, 11. 

 lyte : wryt : quhyte, 105, 4. 

 pryd : syd, 128, 22. 



„ : betyd, 177, 362. 

 skyiss : wyiss, 106, 107. 

 hyd : glyde, 136, 44. 



„ : syd, 174, 319. 377, 57. 



„ : byd, 222, 34. 

 myce : lyce : ryce, 310, 23. 

 myce : wyice, 311, 39. 



lyce : unwyse, 319, 59. gryss (young pig, ON.), 

 319, 57. 



dry : by, 72, 38. harbry, 71, 14. 

 kyth : blyth : wryth, 196, 121. 

 blyth : kyth : swyth, 304, 7. 

 hiddill : riddill (NE. sieve), 213, 53. 



c) OE. i and i + g. 



fyld : wyld, 166, 236. 



fyll (NE. defile) : styll (NE. stile) : wyll, 86, 37. 



d) Fr. i. or ie. 



hyd : homecyd, 222, 35. gyd, 344, 12. 



myce : lyce : myce, 311, 35. gyd : pryd, 328, 38. 



lyce : pryce, 319, 58. 



firit : atyrit : desyrit : inspirit, 122, 31. 



fyre : impyre : desyr, 219, 36. 



e) OE. y + g. 



sky : dry, 96, 70. 



f) OE. i + c. 



sky : I, 192. 13. dry : I, 174, 326. 



