As several of these examples show, slurring occasionally takes place, so that the ending forms part of a disyllabic thesis, but real syncopation never occurs; cf. further: _Ánd asségit it rýgorouslý_ Barbour, Bruce, i. 88; _and évere I hóped(e) of be to hére_ Alexius, ii. 482. With regard to these endings from the beginning of the Modern English epoch onward syncopation (_[e]d_, _'d_, _t_) is the rule; _defied_ Sur. 10; _sustain'd_ ib. 15; _opprest_ Wyatt, 107. But the full syllable not infrequently occurs: _I lóokëd báck_ Sur. 4; _I néver próvëd nóne_ Wyatt, 39. It is characteristic of Spenser's archaistic style, and is often met with in the Elizabethan dramatists; Shakespeare, however, uses it much more frequently in his earlier than in his later plays. The more recent poets admit it in single cases: _said_: _vánishéd_ Keats, Lamia, p. 202. § =104.= The final _-e_ is treated in Modern English poetry in the same manner as in Modern High German: it may be either used as a thesis, or be slurred over, or become quite silent. In Middle English, however, the treatment of the final _-e_ depends much more on the following word than on the etymological origin of the _-e_. It becomes mute, of course, mostly before _h_ or a vowel, but is generally preserved (as a thesis) or slurred before a consonant. This rule has, however, many exceptions. Orm and other poets of the beginning of the thirteenth century give the final _e_ its full syllabic value in certain classes of words in which Chaucer[134] in the second half of the fourteenth century generally slurs it. These words are the pronouns _hire_, _oure_, _ȝoure_, _here_, _myne_, _thyne_ (also spelled without _e_), if they do not stand in rhyme; the plural forms _thise_, _some_, _swiche_, _whiche_; the past part. of strong verbs with an originally short root, the inflexional _n_ being apocopated, e.g. _come_, _write_, _stole_; the 2nd pers. sing. of the strong pret., e.g. _bare_, _tooke_, except such words as _songe_, _founde_, and others of the same group; the preterites _were_ and _made_; the nouns _sone_, _wone_; the French words in _-ye_, _-aye_, _-eye_, and, finally, the words _before_, _tofore_, _there_, _heere_. In most of these cases it is easy enough to give examples of the syllabic use of the _-e_, both from the earliest and from later poets: _Off úre sáwless néde_ Orm. 11402; _þatt úre Láferrd Iésu Críst_ ib. 11403, 11803, &c.; _ȝérne hy þónkede óure dríghte_ Alexius, ii. 35; _Annd ȝúre sáwless fóde íss éc_ Orm. 11691, &c.; _þatt ȝúre préostess hállȝhenn_ ib. 11694; _Till híse déore þéowwess_ ib. 11556; _Att álle þíne néde_ ib. 11366, 11914, &c.; Owl and Nightingale, 220, 221, &c.; _Cástel gód an míne ríse_ ib. 175, 282; _Forgíve hémm hére sínne_ Orm. 86; _Annd wílle iss híre þrídde máhht_ ib. 11509; _For híre héorte wás so grét_ Owl and N. 43, 44, &c.; _At súme síþe hérde ich télle_ ib. 293; _þése wíkkede fóde_ ib. 333; _And máde mé wíþ him ríde_ Sir Orfeo, 153. &c.