The final _-e_ is not used at the end of a line. This is easily seen, if carefully looked into. Thus _lette_ (1284) stands for _let_, for it rimes with _y-set_; _grace_ and _trespace_ rime with _was_, 163; _kene_ rimes with _bene_, misspelling of _been_, 252; _redde_, put for _red_, rimes with _spred_, 302; _yerde_, put for _yerd_, rimes with _aferd_, 363; _ende_ rimes with _frend_ and _fend_, 530; and so on throughout[42]. The following assonances occur: _here_, _grene_, 253; _kepe_, _flete_, 309; and the following rimes are imperfect: _plaint_, _talent_, _consent_, 716; _frend_, _mynd_, 1056; _nonne_ (for _non_), _boun_, 1149; _like_ (_i_ long), _stike_ (_i_ short), 673; and perhaps _hold_, _shuld_[43], 408; _hard_, _ferd_, 151. _Hard_ is repeated, 149, 151; 1275, 1277. A curious rime is that of _length_ with _thynketh_, 1059; read _thenk'th_, and it is good enough. Noteworthy are these: _thryse_ (for Chaucer's _thry-ës_), _wyse_, 537; _hens_ (for Chaucer's _henn-ës_), _eloquence_, 935; _desire_, _here_, 961, 1301; _eke_, _like_, 561; _tretesse_ (for Chaucer's _tretys_), _worthinesse_, 28; _write_, _aright_, 13; _sey_ (I saw), _way_, 692. In one place, he has _discryve_, 778, to rime with _lyve_; and in another _discry_ (miswritten _discryve_, 97), to rime with _high_. As in Chaucer, he sometimes has _dy_, to die, riming with _remedy_, 340, and elsewhere _dey_, to rime with _pray_, 582; and again _fire_, _fyr_, riming with _hyre_, 883, or with _desire_, 1285, and at another time the Kentish form _fere_ (borrowed from Chaucer), with the same sense, r. w. _y-fere_, 622. The most curious forms are those for 'eye.' When it rimes with _degree_, 132, _see_, 768, we seem to have the Northern form _ee_ or _e_; but elsewhere it rimes with _besily_, 299, _pretily_, 419, _wounderly_, 695, _dispitously_, 1139, or with _I_, 282; and the plural _yen_ (= _y'n_) rimes with _lyne_, 135. The sounds represented by _[=e]_ and _y_ obviously afford permissible rimes; that the sounds were not identical appears from ll. 1051-1055, which end with _me_, _remedy_, _be_, _dy_, _company_ consecutively. § 74. Perhaps an easier way for enabling a learner to recognise the peculiarities of The Court of Love, and the difference of its language from Chaucer, is to translate some lines of it into Chaucerian English. The effect upon the metre is startling.