‘Pour noble cause et ensement
Estoiont fait,’
cp. 415, 4523, 7739, 7860, &c.
In other cases too there is a tendency to disarrangement of words or clauses for the sake of metre or rhyme, as Mir. 15941, 17996, compared with Conf. Am. ii. 2642, iv. 3520, v. 6807, &c.
Again, the author of the Confessio Amantis is fond of repeating the same form of expression in successive lines, e.g. Prol. 96 ff.,
‘Tho was the lif of man in helthe,
Tho was plente, tho was richesse,
Tho was the fortune of prouesse,’ &c.
Cp. Prol. 937, v. 2469, &c.
This also is found often in the Mirour, e.g. 4864-9: