The first hemistich of the last line offers a specimen of a variation of the ordinary types with feminine endings (chiefly of A, C, and Cª), designated by Prof. Luick as A1, C1, Cª₁, and showing the peculiarity that instead of the ending –́ × somewhat fuller forms occur, consisting either of two separate words or of a compound word, and thus corresponding either to the formula –́ ×̀, or, if there are three syllables, to the formula –́ × ×̀, or in case of a resolution (as in the above example) to the formula –́ × ⏑́ ×. We differ from Prof. Luick, however, in admitting also endings corresponding to the formula ⏑́ ×̀ ×. As a rule, if not always, such forms of verse are occasioned by the requirements of rhyme. This is not the case, it is true, in the following purely alliterative line: A1* + A*: _þe kíng sòne úp stòd | and sétte hine bì him séoluen_. Lay. 14073-4. but in other verses it is so, e.g.: B* + A1*: _Ah of éou ich wùlle iwíten | þurh sóðen èouwer wúrðscìpen._ ib. 13835-6. and similarly (not corresponding to –́ × ×̀, as Prof. Luick thinks): A1* + B*: _bìdden us to fúltúme | þàt is Críst gòdes súne._ ib. 14618-19. but the formula –́ × ×̀ is represented by the following verses: A1* + A1*: _þe =þ=únre heo ȝìven =þ=únresdǽi | for=þ=í þat hèo heom helpen mæ̀i._ ib. 13929-30. A1* + A1*: _þe =éo=rl ànd þe =é=þel[`y]ng | ib=ú=reþ ùnder gódne kìng_. Prov. iv. 74-5. C1* + Cª₁*: _nès þer nán crístindòm, | þèr þe kíng þat máide nòm._ Lay. 14387-8. In the last but one of these examples this accentuation is corroborated in the Jesus College MS. by the written accent on the word _gódne_, whereby not only the rhyme _-lyng: king_ is shown to be an unaccented one, but at the same time the two-beat rhythm of the hemistich is proved as well as that of the preceding hemistich. Moreover, the alliteration in all these examples is a further proof of the two-beat character of their rhythm.