Of _oo_ there are very few cases except _good_. We have _oon_ about three times for _on_, and _blood_, _brood_, _cooste_, _do_ (= doe), _foode_, _hool_, _schoo_, _too_ (= toe), _woot_, in isolated instances. The doubling of _e_ is more frequent, as _beere_, _cheeke_, _cleene_, _dee_ (pl. _dees_), _degree_, _eem_, _eer_, _fee_, _feede_, _feer_, _feere_, _feet_, _greene_, _meene_, _meete_, _pees_, _queene_, _scheete_, _see_ (subst.), _seene_, _slee_, _spreede_, _thee_, _tree_, _weer_, _weere_, _wreeche_, _ȝee_, _ȝeer_, and a few more. Most of the above words, however, and in general all others, are written usually with a single vowel, and we have quite regularly (for example) _ded_, _dede_, _drem_, _ek_, _fend_, _fre_, _gret_, _hed_, _her_ (= hair), _lef_, _red_, _slep_, _bok_, _bon_, _brod_, _fol_, _gon_, _hot_, _lok_, _non_, _schon_, _sone_ (soon), _tok_, _wok_, and so on. Where there is variation of spelling in this respect, it is not felt to be a matter which concerns the rhyme; for we have _weer_ : _pouer_, _pees_: _reles_, _sene_ : _meene_, _there_ : _feere_, _good_ : _stod_, _fode_ : _goode_, _do_ : _schoo_, &c., though sometimes the spelling of the rhyme-words is evidently brought into harmony, as _meene_ : _Almeene_, ii. 2465 f., _beere_ : _weere_, iv. 1323 f., _brood_ : _good_, v. 4375 f., _goode_ : _foode_, vii. 519 f. In a few cases however a phonetic distinction seems to be intended, as when we find _eet_ as preterite of _ete_, and _beere_ (also _bere_) pret. plur. of _beren_. _Maii_ (the month) is regularly written with _ii_, but rhymes with _mai_, _gay_, &c. The doubling of final consonants, apparently to indicate vowel shortness, is more common, as in _all_, _bladd_, _charr_, _hadd_, _happ_, _madd_, _bedd_, _fedd_, _fett_, _spedd_, _bitt_, _bridd_, _chidd_, _godd_, _rodd_, beside _al_, _char_, _had_, _hap_, _mad_, _bed_, _fet_, &c. The doubling of _s_ in a final tone syllable seems to have no such significance, as in _Achilles_ : _press_, iv. 2161 f., but _Ulixes_ : _pres_, iv. 147 f., so _natheles_ : _encress_, _pes_: _encress_, in all of which the vowel must be long.