Some peculiarities of rime. s. 43. Rimes involving two words; other feminine rimes. s. 44. Permissible rimes. Double word-forms. s. 45. Repetitions. s. 46. Prof. Lounsbury's objections: supposed false rimes in Chaucer and Gower. s. 47. _Feet_, accusative, and _fete_, dative; _entente_; _fore_; _broughte_ riming with _nought_. s. 48. Further attacks upon rimes in Chaucer and Gower. s. 49. General failure of these attacks. s. 50. Assonances. s. 51. Non-riming of -y and -y-[:e]. s. 52. Metres and Forms of Verse. s. 53. Lines of four accents; ballad-metre; four-line stanza. s. 54. The eight-line stanza. s. 55. The seven-line stanza; from Machault. s. 56. Terza Rima. s. 57. A ten-line stanza. s. 58. Two nine-line stanzas. s. 59. Stanzas of six and five lines. s. 60. Stanzas in Anelida. s. 61. Roundels. s.62. Chaucer as a metrist. s.63. Balades and Terns. s. 64. The Envoy. s. 65. The Heroic Couplet. s. 66. Grammatical Outlines. s. 67. General Rules. s. 68. The Strong Declension of Substantives. s. 69. Archaisms. s. 70. Three Types of Strong Substantives. s. 71. Effect of Accent. s. 72. Double forms. s. 73. The Weak Declension. s. 74. Genitive Singular. s. 75. Dative Singular. s. 76. Plurals. s. 77. Substantives of French origin. s. 78. Adjectives. s. 79. Comparatives. s. 80. Superlatives. s. 81. Numerals. s. 82. Pronouns. s. 83. Possessives. s. 84. Demonstratives. s. 85. Interrogatives. s. 86. Relatives. s. 87. Other pronominal forms. s. 88. Verbs. s. 89. General formulae for verbs. s. 90. Seven Conjugations of Strong Verbs. s. 91. Formation of Weak Verbs. s. 92. Three Classes of Weak Verbs. s. 93. Some other Verbs. s. 94. Negative forms. s. 95. Adverbs. s. 96. Prepositions and Conjunctions. s. 97. Constructions. s. 98. Versification. s. 99. Three Latin terms; iamb, trochee, amphibrach. s. 100. Speech-waves. s. 101. Prose and Verse. s. 102. Some new symbols. s. 103. Old French metres. s. 104. Sixteen forms of lines. s. 105. Chaucer's chief licences. s. 106. Examples of scansion. s. 107. His moveable pause. s. 108. Additional syllables explained. s. 109. Examples of additional syllables. s. 110. Syllable dropped in the midst of a line. s. 111. Accentuation. s. 112. Elision. s. 113. The vowel i not counted as a syllable. s. 114. Suppression of syllables. s. 115. Contraction. s. 116. No elision at a pause. s. 117. Four-accent metre. s. 118. Alliteration. s. 119. Chaucer's authorities ix GLOSSARIAL INDEX 1 GLOSSARY TO FRAGMENTS B AND C OF THE ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE 311 GLOSSARY TO GAMELYN 347 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 359 INDEX OF AUTHORS QUOTED OR REFERRED TO BY CHAUCER 381