39. MS. _deth the kerue_. As _e_ and _o_ are constantly confused, the
prefix _to_ (written apart) may have looked like _te_, and would easily
be altered to _the_. Cf. _forkerveth_ in the Manc. Tale, H 340.
47. Here _spac-e_ rimes with _embrac-e_, but in l. 5 it rimes with
_allas_. This variation is no worse than the riming of _embrace_ with
_compas_ in Proverbs, 8 (vol. i. p. 407). Cf. _plac-e_ in C.T., B 1910,
with its variant _plas_, B 1971.
N.B. The Complaints numbered XXV and XXVI are obviously by the same
author; compare XXV. 26 with XXVI. 15; XXV. 9 with XXVI. 43; and XXV.
29-31 with XXVI. 39, 40. They were probably written nearly at the same
time.
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[1: T. 1-22.]