_For he wes =b=ýrsit and =b=éft, | and =b=ráithly =b=lédand ... And wáld that he nane =h=árm hynt | with =h=árt and with =h=ánd._ In both cases we thus have 'accented-unaccented rhymes' (cf. Chapter I in Book II), which probably were uttered in oral recitation with a certain level stress. This is probable for several reasons. First it is to be borne in mind that Germanic words in even-beat rhythms of earlier and contemporary poems were used in the same way, e.g.: _Quhen thái of Lórne has séne the kíng Set ín hymsélff sa grét helpíng._ Barbour, Bruce, iii. 147-8. _And bád thame wénd intó Scotlánd And sét a sége with stálward hánd._ ib. iv. 79-80. Only in these cases the rhythmical accent supersedes the word accent which has to accommodate itself to the former, while in the uneven-beat rhythm of the four-beat alliterative line the word-accent still predominates. In the even-beat lines, therefore, the rhythmical accent rests on the last syllable of a disyllabic rhyme-word, but in the alliterative lines it rests on the penultimate. In the case of words of Romance origin, however, which during this period of the language could be used either with Germanic or with Romanic accentuation, the displacement of the word-accent by the rhythmic accent in non-alliterative words may in these cases have been somewhat more extensive; cf. e.g. rhymes like _rage: curáge: suáge_ Gol. 826-8; _day: gay: journáy_ ib. 787-9; _assáill: mettáill: battáil_ R. Coilȝear, 826-8, &c. (but _ȝone =b=érne in the =b=áttale_ Gol. 806). As a rule, however, for these too the same level-stress accentuation must be assumed as for the rhyme-words of the first stanza of _Golagras_ quoted above (p. 102). § =63.= This is all the more probable because, in these alliterative-rhyming poems, there are many sectional verses corresponding to the old types C and C1, these answering best the combined requirements of alliteration and of end-rhyme, for which frequently one and the same Germanic or Romanic word had to suffice in the second hemistich, as e.g. in the following sectional verses rhyming together:--_What is þi góod réde: for his =k=níȝthéde: (by =cr=ósse and by =cr=éde)_ Awnt. of Arth. 93-7; (_and =b=láke to þe =b=óne): as a =w=ómáne_ ib. 105-7; _en=c=lósed with a =c=rowne: of the =t=résóne_ ib. 287-91; _of ane fáir =w=éll: =t=éirfull to =t=éll: with ane =c=ástéll: =k=éne and =c=rúèll_, or, as Prof. Luick scans, _kéne and cruéll_ (but l. 92 _=c=rúel and =k=éne_) Gol. 40-6; _at the mýddáy: (=w=ént thai thar wáy)_ Howl. 665-7. &c. Also in the even-beat metres the influence of this type is still perceptible; cf. rhymes like _Súmwhat óf his clóþíng Fór þe lóue of héuene kýng._ Rob. Mannyng, Handl. Sinne, 5703-4. which are of frequent occurrence.