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vowel and the
final consonant, such as in wēpern ('weapon')
instead of
wēpen. In
later forms of the dialect, a
became lengthened after some consonant...
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parte fro ye. Thesiphone, thou help me for t'endite
Thise woful vers, that
wepen as I write! Chaucer's
friend John
Gower used a
similar meter in his poem...
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parte fro ye, Thesiphone, thou help me for
tendyte Thise woful vers, that
wepen as I wryt (Troilus and
Criseyde 1.1–7) 15th
century —
Henryson (Describing...
- and hys mery men, they
dawnseyn and they syng, Ivy and hur maydyns, they
wepen and they wryng. Nay, my nay etc "The
Holly and the Ivy" is also related...
