(_c_) The French terminations _-aire_ and _-oire_, from Lat. _-arius_, _-oria_, _-orius_, are employed by Gower both in his French and English works in their Continental forms, the older Anglo-Norman _-arie_, _-orie_, which passed into English, being hardly found in his writings. The following are some of the words in question, most of which occur in the _Confessio Amantis_ in the same form: _adversaire_, _contraire_ (_contrere_), _doaire_, _essamplaire_, _lettuaire_, _necessaire_, _saintuaire_; _consistoire_, _Gregoire_, _histoire_, _memoire_, _purgatoire_, _victoire_. We have however exceptionally _rectorie_ 16136, accented to rhyme with _simonye_, and also (from Lat. _-erium_) _misterie_ (by the side of _misteire_) accented on the ante-penultimate. iii. French _ei_ not before a nasal. This diphthong, which appears usually as _ei_ in the Anglo-Norman texts of the thirteenth century, is here regularly represented by _oi_ and levelled, as in the French of the Continent, with original French _oi_. In its relations to _e_ and _ai_ it has already been spoken of; at present we merely note that the later French form is adopted by our author with some few exceptions both in stems and flexion. Isolated exceptions are _deis_ (debes) for _dois_, _heir_ by the side of _hoir_, _lampreie_, _malveis_ (also _malvois_, _malves_), _teille_, and _vei_ (vide) from _veoir_; also in verbs of the _-ceivre_ class and in derivatives from them it is often retained, as _resceivre_ (but _reçoit_, _resçoivre_), _receipte_, _conceipt_ (also _conçoit_), _conceive_, _deceite_, &c. Under the influence of rhyme we have in 6301 ff. _espleite_, _estreite_, _coveite_, rhyming with _deceite_, _contrefeite_, _souffreite_, and 10117 ff. _pareies_ (parietes), _veies_, _preies_, _moneies_ rhyming with _pareies_ and _journeies_ (for _parées_, _journées_); but elsewhere the forms are _exploite_, _estroite_, _covoite_, _voie_, _proie_, _monoie_, and, in general, Anglo-Norman forms such as _mei_, _rei_, _fei_, _treis_, _Engleis_, have disappeared before the French _moi_, _roi_, _foy_, _trois_, &c.