Category: Poetry
(_a_) When atonic _e_ and another vowel or diphthong come together in a word they are usually contracted, as in _asseurer_, _commeu_, _eust_, _receu_, _veu_ (2387), _vir_ (for _veïr_), _Beemoth_, _beneuré_, _benoit_, _deesce_, _emperour_, _mirour_, _obeissance_, _rançon_, _seu...
(_a_) When atonic _e_ and another vowel or diphthong come together in a word they are usually contracted, as in _asseurer_, _commeu_, _eust_, _receu_, _veu_ (2387), _vir_ (for _...
2. l. 25225,is thoroughly characteristic of Gower, and on the strength of it he holds a kind of perpetual Last Judgement, in which he is always engaged in separating the sheep from the goat...
3. iii. 249,19031. _s’il sa garde pance_, &c., ‘if he neglects his belly-armour of antidote’: ‘garde pance’ is to be taken as practically one word, though not written so in the MS. The idea...
4. xxxi. 1, no, none, any, anyone:=oïr=, =oier=, =oyer=, _v.a._ 324, 10318, 10914, B. ii. 3, xxiv. 1; 3 _s.p._ =ot=, 16588; 1 _s.pret._ =oi=, =oï=, 410, 2326; 3 _s._ =oïst=, 509, =oÿt=, 805, =oÿ=, 10256; _fut._...