id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 43097 Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes .txt text/plain 280778 59714 100 case Chaucer uses all three forms, viz. was slight; yet Chaucer never rimes such words as _bright_, _light_, A.S. _h[=a]te_, adv., A.F. _note_ (Lat. _n[)o]ta_), O. because it occurs in forms which are treated both ways in Chaucer, answers This is one of the exceptional words noted by Ten Brink (_Chaucers Chaucer certainly sometimes uses two forms of the same word; the most genitive case, in Chaucer, usually has a form of its own, let us consider A.S. words ending in _-en_ usually drop the _-n_ in M.E. Hence, in place of the A.S. _[=ae]fen_, Chaucer has _eve_; though _even_ called.' In Chaucer's time these forms and senses were much confused, so GERFUL, _adj._ changeable, T. LYVES, _adv._ in life; hence, _as adj._ living, alive, T. NOTEFUL, _adj._ useful, B 1. Syke, _ger._ to sigh (_but perhaps read_ syte, i.e. to grieve; see note), ./cache/43097.txt ./txt/43097.txt