§ 72. However this may be, the chief point to notice is that his archaisms are affectations and not natural. He frequently dispenses with them altogether for whole stanzas at a time. When they occur, they are such as he found in Chaucer abundantly; I refer to such phrases as _I-wis_ or _y-wis_; _as blyve_; the use of _ich_ for _I_ (661); _besy cure_ (36); _gan me dresse_ (113; cf. C. T., G 1271); _by the feith I shall to god_ (131; cf. Troil. iii. 1649); and many more. He rarely uses the prefix _i-_ or _y-_ with the pp.; we find _y-born_ (976), _y-formed_ (1176), _y-heried_ (592), _y-sped_ (977), all in Chaucer; besides these, I only note _y-fed_ (975), _y-ravisshed_ (153), _y-stope_ (281), the last being used in the sense of Chaucer's _stope_. The most remarkable point is the almost total absence of the final _-e_; I only observe _His len-ë body_ (1257); _to serv-e_ (909); _to dred-e_ (603); and _in thilk-ë place_ (642); the last of which is a phrase (cf. R. R. 660). On the other hand, whilst thus abstaining from the use of the final _-e_, he makes large use of the longer and less usual suffix _-en_, which he employs with much skill to heighten the archaic effect. Thus we find the past participles _holden_, 62; _growen_, 182; _yoven_ or _yeven_, 742; _shapen_, 816, 1354; _blowen_, 1240; the gerunds _writen_, 35; _dressen_, 179; _byden_, 321; _semen_, 607; _seken_, 838; _worshippen_, 1165, and a few others; the infinitives _maken_, 81; _byden_, 189; _quyten_, 327, &c., this being the commonest use; the present plurals _wailen_, 256; _foten_, 586; _speden_, 945, &c.; with the same form for the first person, as in _wailen_, 1113; _bleden_, 1153; and for the second person, as in _waxen_, 958; _slepen_, 999. Occasionally, this suffix is varied to _-yn_ or _-in_, as in _exilyn_, v., 336; _serchyn_, v., 950; _spakyn_, pt. pl., 624; _approchyn_, pr. pl., 1212. This may be the scribe's doing, and is consistent with East Anglian spelling.