There is diaeresis regularly in such proper names as _Theseüs_, _Peleüs_, _Tereüs_, and also in _Saül_, _Isaäc_. We have _Moïses_ usually, but _Moises_ (dissyllable), iv. 648, _Thaise_ usually, but _Thaïsis_ in the epitaph, viii. 1536. One example occurs affecting the _-ee_ termination, viz. _Caldeë_, v. 781 (usually a dissyllable), so _Judeë_, _Galileë_ in _Mirour_, 20067, 29239. This is an essentially different case from that of _degreës_, which is found in Chaucer. The termination _-ius_ is usually dissyllabic, but vii. 2967, ‘The god Mercurius and no man.’ The endings _-ioun_, _-ious_, _-ien_, &c., are always fully pronounced. As regards accent, it has been already observed that the natural accent of words is preserved far better in Gower’s verse than in Chaucer’s. There are, however, a number of words of French origin, of which the accent was unsettled, and also some instances of English words in which a secondary syllable was capable of receiving the principal accent, either in case of composition, as in _kingdom_, _knihthode_, _treweliche_, or with a formative termination, as that of the superlative, _fairéste_, &c., or the present participle, as _wepénde_. In such cases the accent was often determined by the metre. Many Romance words are quite freely treated in the matter of accent, as for example _folie_, _fortune_, _mercy_, _mirour_, _nature_, _parfit_, _preiere_, _resoun_, _science_, _sentence_, _tempeste_. The terminations _-hode_, _-hede_, _-inge_, _-liche_, _-ly_, _-nesse_, _-schipe_ are all capable of accent, and also the penultimate syllables of _answere_ and _felawe_.