This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...276 (cf. in sundery wise, 290); we wery be, 1494; they ben worthy folk, 1518; for adjectives in-ly, cf. 72. (e) the hachis sledere, 648 f (: to gedere). (J) songis amerous, 2616; with stoute romaynys crewel as lyoun, 627; the fatal systeryn, 2630; gentil cryaturys, 1370; gentyl wemen, 1587 (cf. 2131, where gentyl wemen ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...276 (cf. in sundery wise, 290); we wery be, 1494; they ben worthy folk, 1518; for adjectives in-ly, cf. 72. (e) the hachis sledere, 648 f (: to gedere). (J) songis amerous, 2616; with stoute romaynys crewel as lyoun, 627; the fatal systeryn, 2630; gentil cryaturys, 1370; gentyl wemen, 1587 (cf. 2131, where gentyl wemen is probably a compound); hire subtyl werkemen, 672; je wrechede gelos faderys oure, 900. (g) Ek al the world of autourys mayst tow here Cristene and hethene trete of swich matere, 308-9; they were hethene al the pak, 299; these ydele wordys, 767; they were half Idyl, 1697; how stedefaste wedewys, 283. 71. The treatment of the plural of adjectives of more than one syllable at the end of the verse is illustrated by the following examples: on of the lustyeste, 716 f (: fayreste def. s.). the hachis sledere, 648 f (: to gedere adv.); ffor olde payenys that Idolys heryed Vsedyn tho in feldis to ben beryed, 786-7 (this rhyme of //. with//, might be justified by supposing beryed to have an inflectional-e, but it seems better to suppose that the-e of heryede is apocopated; cf. thus was she seruyd That neuere harm agilte ne deseruyd, 2384-5; his folk forpynnyd Of werynesse and also enfamynyd, 2428-9. S 72. Adjectives in A.S.-lie (-lie), O.N.-ligr, appear in L. G. W. with the ending-ly. The fact that no example of the spelling-Itch appears in the Cambridge MS. seems to make against ten Brink's theory ( 270) that Chaucer was inclined to use-lien instead of-ly when the following word began with a vowel. A comparison of the other MSS. shows that in only one instance does-Itch occur in any of them, --thyn statly aparaunce, 1372, Tn. S. statelich, Th. scathlyche, the rest, statly (variously spelt). It is true that there are only a few exa...
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