In other cases there is no certainty whether the final «e» is quite silent or must be slightly pronounced or slurred over, so as to form trisyllabic measures. It must be noted, however, that in supposing trisyllable measures in all these doubtful cases, the number of this kind of measure will increase to a great amount in the «Sowdan». Therefore I rather incline to think the final «e» silent also in the following instances:—2090 «défendẹ this place», 1201 «brékẹ both báke», 861 «cómẹ from ál», 2119 «askẹ consaile», 1597 «wólẹ these traítours», 1783 «whéns comẹ yé», 2317 «pássẹ that brígge», 1100 «rónnẹ bytwéne», 2997 «fóught so lónge», 175 «brokẹ nothinge», 1658 «béddẹ with ríght», 713 «grénẹ wodẹ síde», 571 «hómẹ to Rómẹ that nýght», 1610 «the fáls jailoúr feddẹ yoúr prisonére», 2152 «fáls traitóurs of Fránce», 921 «chárged the yónge with ál», 380 «aboútẹ midnýghte», 726 «sóne to hím», 160 «únneth not óne» [Chaucer still pronounces «unnethë»]. Nevertheless there seems to be some instances where the final «e» is to be sounded, as in ll. 298, 2790, 1332, 1619, 2740, 592, 2166, 2463, 1405, 2386, 895, 332, 91. Final «en» also seems sometimes not to constitute a separate syllable:—1365 «waítẹṇ uppon mé», 459 «brékẹṇ our wállis», 45 «slépẹṇ with ópyne ýȝe», 485 «cómẹṇ by the cóst», 2313 «dídẹṇ it aboút», &c. In all these cases «n» had very probably already fallen off in the speech of the poet, as the following examples lead us to suppose:—178 «wynne»: «him», 1582 «dye»: «biwry», 2309 «shewe» : «trewe», 2107 «slépe to lónge», 861 «cóme from ál», &c. As regards the final «es» of nouns, the poet seems to have observed the same rules as those followed by Chaucer; viz. «es» is sounded when [p-xl] joined to monosyllabic stems; it does not increase the number of syllables (and therefore is often spelt-«s» instead of-«es»), when the stem has two or more syllables:—197, 277 «goddës», 665 «nailës», 445 «tentës», 2068 «tentïs», 174, 1799 «hedës», 2032, 2868 «swerdës», 2327 «wallës», 1209 «stedës», 1770 «shippës», 2702 «somers», 2687, 2591 «felowes», 2660 «felows», 2412 «maydyns», 647, 1597 «traytours», 2036 «orders», 45 «lovers», 2612, 3098 «develes», 1072 «faderis», 203, 862 «sowdons», 881 «sarsyns». The final «es» of adverbs seems no longer to constitute a separate syllable:—2213 «hónged’ els bý», 2786 «éls had’ hé», 2109 «éllis I may sínge», 1525 «élles wol’ hé», 2061 «théns», 1783 «whens». METRE AND VERSIFICATION. The poem is composed in four-line stanzas. The arrangement of the rhyme is such that the 1st and 3rd lines rhyme together, and the 2nd and 4th together, which gives the following rhyme-formula: «a b a b». The rhyme-endings employed in one stanza do not occur again in the next following.