_Die Alliteration im Layamon_, by K. Regel; _Germanistische Studien_, ed. K. Bartsch, Vienna, 1874, i. 172 ff. _Die Alliteration bei Chaucer_, by Dr. F. Lindner, _Jahrbuch f. rom. und engl. Literatur_, N. Ser. ii, p. 311 ff. _Die Alliteration in den Werken Chaucers mit Ausschluss der Canterbury Tales_, by E. Petzold. Dissertation, Marburg, 1889. _Die alliterierenden Sprachformeln in Morris's Early English Alliterative Poems und im Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight_, by Joh. Fuhrmann. Dissertation, Kiel, 1886. Prof. Dr. K. Seitz, _Die Alliteration im Englischen vor und bei Shakspere_, and _Zur Alliteration im Neuenglischen_. Realschulprogramme i-iii, Marne, 1875, Itzehoe, 1883, 1884. M. Zeuner, _Die Alliteration bei neuenglischen Dichtern_. Dissertation, Halle, 1880. _Die stabreimenden Wortverbindungen in den Dichtungen Walter Scott's_, by Georg Apitz. Dissertation, Breslau, 1893. NOTES: [130] We therefore hold ten Brink to be wrong in asserting (_Chaucer's Sprache und Verskunst_, § 307, 3. Anm.) that no redundant or hypermetrical syllable is permissible in the caesural pause of Chaucer's iambic line of five accents, although he recognizes that in lines of four accents Chaucer admits the very same irregularity, which moreover has remained in use down to the present day. Cf. Skeat, _Chaucer Canon_, Oxford, 1900, pp. 31-3, and Schipper in Paul's _Grundriss_, ed. 2, II. ii, pp, 217-18. On this point, as also on several others, Miss M. Bentinck Smith, the translator of ten Brink's work, is of our opinion (cf. her Remarks on Chapter III of ten Brink's _Chaucer's Sprache und Verskunst_ in _The Modern Language Quarterly_, vol. v, No. 1, April, 1902, pp. 13-19). A contrary view with regard to 'extra syllables' in the heroic and the blank-verse line (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) is taken by A. P. van Dam and Cornelis Stoffel, _Chapters on English Printing, Prosody, and Pronunciation_ (1550-1700), Heidelberg, 1902 (Anglistische Forschungen herausgegeben von Dr. Johannes Hoops, Heft 9), pp. 48-113. [131] Cf. the lines from Wright's _Spec. of Lyr. Poetry_, p. 31, quoted on p. 98. [132] Cf. _Parson's Prologue_, 42-3. CHAPTER VII THE METRICAL TREATMENT OF SYLLABLES