“And of thi wordis beis trew and stable” ([l. 1671]);
but the termination -ith is continually finding its way into the poem, even as early as in the fourth line,
“Uprisith arly in his fyre chare;”
and in the imperative mood also, as,
“Remembrith now it stondith one the poynt” ([l. 797]).
The most singular point of all, however, is this—that, not content with changing -is into -ith in the 3rd person singular, the scribe has done the same even in the 2nd person, thus producing words which belong to no pure example of any distinct dialect. Observe the following lines:—
“O woful wrech, that levis in to were!
To schew the thus the god of loue me sent,
That of thi seruice no thing is content,
For in his court yhoue [= thou] lewith in disspar,