[660] B. xi. 114.

[661]

But I loked what lyflode it was: that Pacience so preysed,
And thanne was it a pece of the Pater noster · "Fiat voluntas tua."

B. xiv. 47.

[662] B. xiii. 137.

[663]

Thei timbrede not so hye.

(A. iii. 76.)

[664] Langland's lines usually contain four accentuated syllables, two in each half line; the two accentuated syllables of the first half line, and the first accentuated syllable of the second half line are alliterated, and commence by the same "rhyme-letter:"

I shópe me in shroúdes · as I a shépe wére.