[136] Cf. King James I, The Kingis Quair, ed. by W. W. Skeat, 1883–4.

[137] Cf. Metrik, ii. 101–3 note.

[138] Cf. Ellis, E. E. Pr., i. 367–8.

[139] A long list of the words so treated is to be found in Abbott, Shakespearian Grammar, § 460.

[140] Cf. Abbott, § 477; Ellis, E. E. Pr., iii. 951–2; Metrik, ii, 117–18.

[141] See ten Brink, The Language and Metre of Chaucer (English transl.), § 280, where the metrical treatment of these words is described. The German term used by ten Brink is Anlehnungen.

[142] Old English Homilies, ed. R. Morris, First Series, Part I, E.E.T.S., No. 29, pp. 55–71.

[143] Cf. Charles L. Crow, On the History of the Short Couplet in Middle English. Dissert., Göttingen, 1892.

[144] Cf. John Heywood als Dramatiker, von Wilh. Swoboda, 1888, p. 83 ff.

[145] Cf. our metrical notes (‘Metrische Randglossen’) in Engl. Studien, x, p. 192 seq.