672. _Com hider, love, to me._ 'This, I suppose, was the beginning or the burthen of some known song.'--Tyrwhitt. It is quoted again in l. 763 of the poem called 'The Pearl,' in the form--'Come hyder to me, my lemman swete.' _hider_, hither. The rime of _tó me_ with _Róme_ should be particularly noted, as it enables even the reader who is least skilled in English phonology to perceive that _Ro-me_ was really dissyllabic, and that the final _e_ in such words was really pronounced. Similarly, in Octouian Imperator, ed. Weber, l. 1887, we find _seint Ja-mè_, riming with _frá me_ (from me). Perhaps the most amusing example of editorial incompetence is seen in the frequent occurrence of the mysterious word _byme_ in Pauli's edition of Gower; as, e.g. in bk. iii. vol. i. p. 370:-- 'So woll I nought, that any time Be lost, of that thou hast do _byme_.' Of course, _by me_ should have been printed as two words, riming with _ti-mè_. This is what happens when grammatical facts are ignored. _Time_ is dissyllabic, because it represents the A. S. _t[=i]ma_, which is never reduced to a monosyllable in A. S. 673. _bar ... a stif burdoun_, sang the bass. See A. 4165, and N. and Q. 4 S. vi. 117, 255. Cf. Fr. _bourdon_, the name of a deep organ-stop. 675, 676. _wex_, wax. _heng_, hung. _stryke of flex_, hank of flax. 677. _By ounces_, in small portions or thin clusters. 679. _colpons_, portions; the same word as mod. E. _coupon_. 680. _for Iolitee_, for greater comfort. He thought it pleasanter to wear only a cap (l. 683). _wered_, wore; see l. 75. Cf. G. 571, and the note. 682. _the newe Iet_, the new fashion, which is described in ll. 680-683. 'Also, there is another newe _gette_, A foule waste of clothe and excessyfe, There goth no lesse in a mannes typette Than of brode cloth a yerde, by my lyfe.' Hoccleve, De Regim. Principum, p. 17. '_Newe Iette_, guise nouelle'; Palsgrave. [56] 683. _Dischevele_, with his hair hanging loose.