C['a]useth sw['i]che | dr['e]mes oft[:e] (HF. 35). ¯| ¯| . ¯| ¯| T['u]rn'-us ['e]v'ry | dr['e]em to-g['o]d[:e] (HF. 58). ¯| ¯| . ¯¯ |¯| Examples of medial redundant syllables are these:-- I-n['o]ot, but-wh['o]so | of-th['e]se mir['a]cles (HF. 12). |¯ |¯' . |¯ |¯| In-st['u]die | or-m[`e]l.anc['o]l.i[`o]us (30). |¯' . |¯ |¯ |¯ And-wh['e]n she-w['i]ste | that-h['e] was-f['a]ls (393). |¯ |¯| . |¯ |¯ Til-th['a]t he-f['e]lte | that-['I] had-h['e]t[:e] (569). |¯ |¯| . |¯ |¯| J['o]y' or-s['o]row' | wher-s['o] hit-b['e] (BD. 10). ¯| |¯| . |¯ |¯ For-c['e]rtes sw['e]t[:e] | I-n['a]m but-d['e]ed (204). |¯| ¯| . |¯ |¯ To-sl['e]p[:e] | that-r['i]ght up['o]n my-b['o]ok (273). |¯| . |¯ |¯ |¯ That-h['a]dd' y-f['o]low'd | and-c['o]ud' no-g['o]od (390). |¯ |¯| . |¯ |¯ Feminine or double rimes are very common. Thus, in HF. 531-546, we have eight such rimes in succession. s. 118. ALLITERATION. As our oldest poetry was alliterative, alliteration has always been considered a permissible, and indeed a favourite, ornament of English verse. I shall only remark here that Chaucer affords excellent examples of it, and employs it with much skill. One well-known passage in the Knightes Tale (A 2601-16) has often been admired on this account. It is needless to cite more examples. The reader may consult the dissertation on 'The Alliteration of Chaucer,' by C.F. McClumpha; Leipzig, n. d. (about 1886). s. 119. CHAUCER'S AUTHORITIES. The question as to 'The Learning of Chaucer' is so fully discussed in the second volume of Lounsbury's Studies in Chaucer, that it is unnecessary to say much here upon this subject. The reader will find, in the 'Index of Authors Quoted or Referred to' given at p. 381 below, not only a fairly complete list of such authors, but a detailed enumeration of all the quotations which, with tolerable certainty, have been traced to their origin. In particular, we cannot but be struck by his familiarity with the Vulgate version of the Bible. He quotes it, as may be seen, very nearly three hundred times, and his quotations refer to nearly all parts of it, including the apocryphal books of Tobit, Judith, Susannah, the Maccabees, and especially Ecclesiasticus. It is somewhat remarkable that the book of the Old Testament which is quoted most frequently is not, as we might expect, the Psalms, but the Book of Proverbs, which was a mine of sententious wealth to the medieval writers. The book of the New Testament which received most of his attention was the Gospel of St. Matthew.