In trisyllables the reverse is the case; only Orm, who always, as is well known, carefully counts his syllables, treats the ending as a full syllable. Otherwise syncopation or slurring over of the last syllable is the rule in these words: _a sómeres dáy_ Chauc. Sq. Tale, 64; _Gréyhoundes he hádde_ id. Prol. 190; _hóusbondes át that tóun_ id. Kn. Tale, 78; _the távernes wél_ id. Prol. 240. In Modern English in all these cases elision of the _-e_ is the rule, those, of course, excepted in which the _-e_ is still sounded at the present day (after sibilants, dentals, &c.) and which therefore we need not discuss here. The use of _-es_ as a full syllable is otherwise quite exceptional, chiefly occurring in the Early Modern English poets, who use the sounded _e_, occasionally, to gain an unaccented syllable, e.g.: _The níghtës cár the stárs abóut doth bríng._ Surrey, p. 15. _Sometíme to líve in lóvës blíss._ Wyatt, p. 119. _That líke would nót for áll this wórldës wealth._ Spens. F. Q. I. ix. 31. _The héat doth stráight forsáke the límbës cóld_. Wyatt, p. 205. _Bé your éyës yét moon-próofe._ Ben Jonson, i. 979. The usual sound of these words is _night's_, _love's_, _world's_, _limbs_, _eyes_, and so in all similar cases. The syncopation of the _-e_ in the adverbial _-es_ is indicated, as is well known, by the spelling, in certain cases: e.g. in _else_, _hence_, _thence_, whence (instead of the Middle English forms _elles_, _hennes_, &c.); but even in words where it is preserved in writing, as e.g. in _whiles_, _unawares_, it has become mute and has, as a rule, no metrical value in Modern English poetry. The archaic _certes_, however, is still always treated as a disyllabic, e.g. _I wáil, I wáil, and certës that is trúe._ Mrs. Browning, i, p. 55.