s. 45. REPETITIONS. Such rimes as _aff-ecciouns_, _prot-ecciouns_, F 55, wherein the penultimate and antepenultimate syllables are repeated, are disliked by later writers. Chaucer had found many such in Le Roman de la Rose[44]. In discussing such repeated rimes as _seke_, to seek, _seke_, sick, A 17, we must remember that they are common in Old French poetry, though it was usual for the poet to take care that the repeated forms should be used _in different senses_. This rule Chaucer usually observes; cf. _s['e]['e]_, see, _s[`e][`e]_, sea, A 3615; _here_, here, _here_, to hear, A 4339; _style_, style, _style_, a stile, F 105; _fern_, fern, _fern_, long ago, F 255; &c. But he also allowed himself such repetitions as _nones_, _noon is_, A 523; _clerkes_, _clerk is_, B 4425; _places_, _place is_, D 1767; &c. We now avoid such rimes as _acordes_, _cordes_, HF. 695; _acorde_, _recorde_, Parl. Foules, 608; and still more, such rimes (all too easy) as _goodnesse_, _soothfastnesse_, E 793; _soothfastnesse_, _wrecchednesse_, I 34; _more_, _evermore_, Anelida, 240. s. 46. MISTAKES AS TO CHAUCER'S USES. Some of the facts concerning Chaucer's rimes have been misunderstood, even by so good a scholar as Prof. Lounsbury, in his Studies of Chaucer, vol. ii[45]. It is therefore desirable to point out some of these errors. He calls attention, among others, to the following false rimes:-- _Desyre_, _manere_, T. iv. 817 (p. 54). But the right reading is _martyre_, which alone makes sense. For the actual use of the false rime here censured, see Rom. Rose, 2779. _Kinde_, _binde_, _wende_, T. iii. 1437 (p. 54). Read _winde_, that thou mayst wind. 'Gower will furnish a number of similar illustrations' (p. 54)[46]. Prof. Lounsbury is extremely anxious to prove that assonances (i.e. such imperfect rimes as we see in _kepe_, _eke_, with a mere correspondence in the vowel-sound only) occur in Chaucer; and endeavours to strengthen his position by considering various difficult rimes. At p. 60, he says: 'All difficulty with _crown_ and _person_ (R.R. 3201) disappears the moment they receive the forms _coroun_ and _persoun_ (as in Gower, iii. 112, 141, 227, 234).' But Gower has no such forms; he has _cor['o]ne_, _pers['o]ne_ in every instance, emphasised by the use of _cor['o]ned_, _envir['o]ned_ (iii. 112), and by such lines as, 'If it in his pers['o]n-e be'; ii. 202. Chaucer rimes _persone_ with _allone_, D 1162; and with _done_, T. ii. 701, 1485, iv. 83; and he uses the forms _c['o]rone_ or _c['o]roune_ and _cor['o]ne_. But R.R. 3201 has, 'And on hir heed she hadde a _crown_'; and, only two lines below, has the dissyllabic _crownet_.