(_d_) the past tense of weak verbs, where the _-e_ follows _-ed_, _-t_, or _-d_. Examples are very numerous; as, louede = lov’de, 30, 35 (not elided), 37, hauede = hav’de, 343; cf. haued = havd’, 336; þurte, 10, durst_e_, 65, reft_e_, 94; dede, 29, sende, 136, seyde, 228, herde, 286. Observe hated = hated_e_, 40. The plurals of these tenses are rarely in _-e_, generally in _-en_, as, haueden, 241, ded_en_, 242, sprauleden = spraul’den, 475. (_e_) the subjunctive or optative mood, or the 3rd person of the imperative mood, which is really the 3rd person of the subjunctive. This rule seems to be carefully observed. Examples are yeue, 22, thaue, 296, yerne, 299, leue, 406, were, 513, wit_e_, 517, &c. So for the _first_ person, as, lat_e_, 509, lepe (not elided), 2009, spek_e_, 2079; and for the _second_ person, as, understonde, 1159, fare, 2705, cone, 622, 623. (_f_) other parts of a _few_ verbs; thus, the 1st person singular present, as, liue, 301, ete, 793, rede, 1660, wille, 388, where _wille_ is equivalent to _wish_. (_g_) present participles: thus, plattínde, 2282, is a half-rime to gangánde. In other places, the author is careful to place them before a vowel, as gretind_e_, 1390, lauhwind_e_, 946, starind_e_, 508, driuend_e_, 2702, fastind_e_, 865. (4) In adverbs the final _-e_ denotes-- (_a_) an older vowel-ending; as, son_e_ (A.S. _sóna_), 136, sone, 218, 251, yete (A.S. _géta_, as well as _gét_), 495, ofte (Swed. _ofta_, Dan. _ofte_), 227. (_b_) an adverb as distinguished from its corresponding adjective, as, yerne, 153, loude, 96, longe, 241, more, 301, softe, 305, heye, 335, swiþe, 455, harde, 639. Hence, in l. 640, we should read _neye_. (_c_) an older termination in _-en_ or _-an_; as, þer-hinne, 322, 709, 712, henne, 843, inne, 855. Cf. A.S. _heonan_, _innan_. (_d_) It is also sounded in the termination _-like_, as, sikerlike, 422. Hence, in baldelike, 53, _both_ the _ees_ are sounded; cf. feblelike, 418. When the final _-e_ is slurred over before an _h_ in _Chaucer_, _h_ is found commonly to begin the pronoun _he_, or its cases, the possessive pronouns _his_, _hire_, or their cases, a part of the verb to _have_, or else the adverbs _how_ or _heer_. The same rule seems to hold in _Havelok_. Observe, that _e_ often forms a syllable in the _middle_ of a word, as, bondeman, 32, engelondes, 63, pourelik_e_, 322. With regard to the final _-en_, it is most commonly slurred over before a vowel or the _h_ in _he_ or _haue_, not only when it is the termination of the infinitive mood, but in _many other cases_. One striking example may suffice: He gret_en_ and gouled_en_ and gou_en_ hem ille, 164. A still more striking peculiarity is that _the same rule often holds_ for the ending _-es_. We find it, of course, forming a distinct syllable in plurals; as, limes, 86; and in adverbs, as, liues, 509. But observe such instances as maydn_es_, 2, prest_es_, 33, vtlaw_es_, 41, siþ_es_, 213, &c.