The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Introduction, glossary, and indexesClarendon Press, 1894 |
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Introduction, glossary, and indexes Geoffrey Chaucer Affichage du livre entier - 1894 |
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accent amphibrach Astrolabe Balade Boethius Book Brink caesura Canterbury Canterbury Tales Chaucer comp Complaint conj Cotgrave dative Delete the comma denoted dere dissyllabic edition Envoy examples fare Feyne final French origin give Glossary Godefroy goon Goth Gower grene Hence herte House of Fame Icel infin Kentish large number Legend Lene Lete Leve means metre Midland Minor Poems modern English Moeve monosyllabic Moot Mote Mowen mutation Nedes occurs open long Parliament of Foules peyne plural prep pres preterite Prof pronunciation reference refl remarkable rimes Romaunt Rose rote scribes shew short sone sound stanza Stratmann strong verbs subj suffix superl symbol Tale thou Troilus Tyrwhitt's usually verse vowel weak syllable weak verbs Wene weye whilst wolde words written
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Page xcix - Ther may no tonge expresse in no science; For som-tyme, lady, er men praye to thee, Thou goost biforn of thy benignitee, And getest us the light, thurgh thy preyere, To gyden us un-to thy sone so dere.
Page xliv - ... and in st. 86, we have rede, red, paired off with spede, to speed. That is, we have here three exceptions in the course of 97 stanzas, being more than can be found in the whole of Chaucer's genuine works put together. In fact, the indiscriminate riming of close and open e is a capital test for Lydgate and for work of the fifteenth century. Using this test alone, we should see cause to suspect The Flower and the Leaf, which has three false rimes of this class, viz.
Page xli - ... consist in this, that not one of the words in class A can possibly rime with one of those in class B, either in Troilus or in any genuine work of Chaucer. To test this, we must first refer to Cromie's Rime-Index to the Canterbury Tales, under the headings, eche, ede (eede), eke, ene, epe, ere, ete, eve. The only apparent exceptions that I can find are two ; and they are worth notice. Under eepe, we are told that leepe, 3 s. perf., rimes with keepe, n. obj. The reference is to Group A. 2688. When...
Page xlii - AS wceron answers to Goth. wesun, the e in it is unstable. But once more, viz. in Clk. Ta. 882, we again find were riming with dere ; and, after all, dere (see below) has unstable e. The Death of Blaunche presents many difficulties, and the text of it is far more uncertain and unsatisfactory than that of any other genuine poem. In the House of Fame, 1885, we find the rime here (here), lere (to teach). This only shews that lere is here once more used with the close e; I have already said (p. 26*)...
Page xli - ... seke, to seek. bitwene, between ; grene, green ; kene, keen ; quene, queen ; tene, vexation ; wene, to ween. kepe, to keep ; wepe, to weep ; also depe, deep. fere, companion ; yfere, together ; here, here ; dere, dear. bete,flete, grete, mete, to mend, float, greet, meet; swete, sweet. leve, dear. Of course, the rime-tests consist in this, that not one of the words in class A can possibly rime with one of those in class B, either in Troilus or in any genuine work of Chaucer. To test this, we...
Page xlvi - ... dear, reve, a reeve. (C) eve, eve, leve, to believe, bileve, belief, leve, to permit. Note that yeve, to give, usually rimes with live, to live, as in mod. English. 0. All words in o seem to rime together; of these, to, therto, unto, do, fordo, should have the close sound. olde. Nolde, sholde, wolde, usually rime together. Occasionally wolde rimes with other words. In only one case does sholde rime with tolde (B. Duch. 1200), where wolde would make better sense. one. (A) alone, echone, bone,...
Page xlii - This is a case where the sound decides the sense. The e in bere is properly short ; hence the same is true of here. Accordingly, here is not an adverb, nor does it mean ' here ' ; it is the personal pronoun, AS hire, and it means ' her ' ; precisely as it does in Troilus, II. 238. In the Minor Poems, the following passages are the only ones that I can find that present any difficulty. In the Death of Blaunche, 1253, we find need riming with heed (head); so that need has here apparently, an open e....
Page lx - Se pour ce muir qu'amours ay bien servi , Fait mauvais servir si fait signour : Ne je n'ay pas ce croy mort desservi Pour bien amer de très loial amour. Mais je voy bien que...
Page xl - Sprache, § 25). No explanation is offered, and I know of none, unless it be that it was confused with lere, cheek, from AS hleor. But we must note the fact. Ete. The exceptional words are bihete, mete (to dream), strete, street. Bihete is really a false form for bihote (AS bihatan) ; the e is due to confusion with the pt.
Page xliii - ... him, being used elsewhere very freely. The poem which I have called An Amorous Complaint has every rime perfect, except in 1. 16, where the author rimes do (with close o) with wo, go (with open o). But do rimes with go in Troilus, I. 11, and II. 114, and with wo in Troilus, I. 119; see footnote 34. This shews one side of the argument. It is instructive to turn to a piece like The Complaint of the Black Knight, which we now know to be Lydgate's, as printed in the Aldine Chaucer, vi. 235. In the...