s. 24. The above example also shews the mode of scanning the lines, as will be more particularly explained hereafter. It will be seen that the normal number of accents in the line is five, though the fifth line, quite exceptionally, has six, with an additional accent at the caesural pause. It may also be noted here, by the way, that accents are by no means of equal strength. The accents on _with_ in lines 1 and 5, on _to_ in line 2, and on _is_ in l. 4, are but slight; whilst those on the former syllables of _straunge_ and _strondes_ in line 13 are of unusual force. s. 25. RIMES ILLUSTRATING THE PRONUNCIATION OF LONG O AND LONG E. It has been said that the values of the M.E. vowels are intermediate between those of the Anglo-Saxon and the modern vowels. The best and surest guide to them is afforded by the A.S. sounds, and it is worth while to illustrate this by special instances. Let us consider the case of the open and close _o_. These are distinguished by their origin. Thus open long _o_ (ao) arises (1) from A.S. _[=a]_; or (2) from the lengthening of A.S. short _o_ at the end of an open syllable. I have observed that Chaucer frequently makes a difference between the open _o_ that arises from these two sources. The M.E. (ao) from A.S. _[=a]_ was doubtless wholly long. Examples occur in _lore_ (lao.r[*e]), lore, from A.S. _l[=a]r_; and in _more_ (mao.re), more, from A.S. _m[=a]ra_. But the M.E. (ao) from the lengthening of A.S. short _o_ was probably somewhat less full, or only half-long, or perhaps, as Dr. Sweet suggests, was somewhat closer. At any rate, Chaucer usually makes a difference between this sound and the former. To keep up the distinction, I shall now write ([`o][`o]) for the former open _o_, and ([`o]) for the latter; so that _lore_ and _more_ will be denoted by (l[`o][`o].r[*e]), (m[`o][`o].r[*e]). Examples of the other (ao) occur in _forlore_ (forl[`o].r[*e]), from A.S. _forloren_, forlorn; _to-fore_ (t['o]['o]-f[`o].r[*e]), from A.S. _t[=o]-foran_; and in the curious word _more_ (m[`o].r[*e]), a root, from the A.S. _mora_. In the fourth stanza of Troilus, Book V, Chaucer distinguishes between ([`o][`o]) and ([`o]) in a very marked manner, since the riming formula of the stanza is _ababbcc_, i.e. the first line rimes with the third, and the second with the fourth and fifth. Observe, that Chaucer emphasizes this variation by making a similar distinction between open and close _e_ in the preceding stanza. I here give the pronunciation of the whole stanza; and, in order not to confuse the marks over the (o) with those of accentuation, the accent is here denoted by (.) placed _after_ the accented vowel or syllable.