If we look a little more closely, we find other indications which should make us hesitate still more. At l. 5919, we find _hors_ (horse) riming with _wors_ (worse); but Chaucer rimes _wors_ with _curs_ (Cant. Ta. A 4349), and with _pervers_ (Book Duch. 813). At l. 6045, we find _fare_, _are_; but Chaucer never uses _are_ at the end of a line; he always uses _been_. At l. 6105, we find _atte last_, _agast_; but Chaucer only has _atte last-e_ (which is never monosyllabic). At l. 6429, we find _paci-ence_, _venge-aunce_, a false rime which it would be libellous to attribute to Chaucer; and, at l. 6469, we find _force_, _croce_, which is still worse, and makes it doubtful whether it is worth while to go on. However, if we go a little further, we find the pl. form _wrought_ riming with _nought_, 6565; but Chaucer usually has _wrought-e_, which would destroy the rime. This, however, is not decisive, since Chaucer has _bisought_ for _bisoughte_, Cant. Ta. A. 4117, and _brought_ for _broughte_, id. F. 1273. But when, at l. 6679, we find _preched_ riming with _teched_, we feel at once that this is nothing in which Chaucer had a hand, for he certainly uses the form _taughte_ (Prologue, 497), and as certainly does _not_ invent such a form as _praughte_ to rime with it. Another unpleasant feature is the use of the form _Abstinaunce_ in l. 7483, to gain a rime to _penaunce_, whilst in l. 7505, only 22 lines lower down, we find _Abstinence_, to rime with _sentence_; but the original has similar variations. § 13. I will just mention, in conclusion, one more peculiarity to be found in fragment C. In the Cant. Tales, B 480 (and elsewhere), Chaucer uses such rimes as _clerkes_, _derk is_, and the like; but not very frequently. The author of fragment C was evidently much taken with this peculiarity, and gives us plenty of examples of it. Such are: _requestis_, _honést is_, 6039; _places_, _place is_, 6119; _nede is_, _dedis_, 6659; _apert is_, _certis_, 6799; _chaieris_, _dere is_, 6915; _enquestes_, _honést is_, 6977; _prophetis_, _prophete is_, 7093; _ypocritis_, _spite is_, 7253. Here are eight instances in less than 1900 lines. However, there are five examples (at ll. 19, 75, 387, 621, 1349) in the Hous of Fame, which contains 2158 lines in the same metre as our 'translation'; and there are 19 instances in the Cant. Tales. We should also notice that the character called _Bialacoil_ throughout Fragment B is invariably called _Fair-Welcoming_ in C. We should also remark how Dr. Lindner (_Engl. Studien_, xi. 172) came to the conclusion that Chaucer certainly never wrote fragment C. As to the rest he doubted, and with some reason; for he had not before him the idea of splitting lines 1-5810 into two fragments.