Chapter VII: The Metrical Treatment of Syllables

§ 95. General remarks on formative and inflexional syllables 151
96. Treatment of the unaccented _e_ of words of three
and four syllables in Middle English 152
97. Special remarks on individual inflexional endings 154
98. Treatment of _-en_ in Middle and Modern English 155
99. The comparative and superlative endings _-er_, _-est_ 156
100. The ending _-est_ 157
101. The endings _-eth_, _-es_ (_'s_) 158
102. The ending _-ed_ (_'d_, _t_) 158
103. The ending _-ed_ (_-od_, _-ud_) of the 1st and
3rd pers. sing. pret. and plur. pret. of weak verbs 159
104. The final _-e_ in Middle English poetry 160
105. Examples of the arbitrary use of final _-e_ 161
106. The final _-e_ in later poetry of the North 162
107. Formative endings of Romanic origin 163
108. Contraction of words ordinarily pronounced in full 165
109. Amalgamation of two syllables for metrical purposes 166
110. Examples of slurring or contraction 167
111. Other examples of contraction; apocopation 168
112. Lengthening of words for metrical purposes 169