188.  He of his boddie han kepte watch and ward.

          207.  His chaunce in warr he ne before han tryde.

          281.  The erlie felt de Torcies trecherous knyfe
               Han made his crymson bloude and spirits floe.

          319.  O Hengist, han thy cause bin good and true!

          321.  The erlie was a manne of hie degree. 
               And han that daie full manie Normannes sleine.

          337.  But better han it bin to lett alone.

If more instances should be wanted, see H. 1. 396. 429. 455.  H. 2. 306. 703.—­p. 275. ver. 4.—­p. 281. ver. 63.—­p. 288. ver. 1.

In the same irregular manner the following verbs are used singularly.

  E. I. 10.  Then fellen on the grounde and thus yspoke.

  H. 2. 665.  Bewopen Alfwoulde fellen on his knee.

  P. 287. ver. 17.  For thee I gotten or bie wiles or breme.

  H. 1. 252.  He turned aboute and vilely souten flie.

  H. 2. 339.  Fallyng he shooken out his smokyng braine.

  H. 2. 334.  His sprite—­Ne shoulden find a place in anie songe.

  AE. 172.  So Adam thoughtenne when ynn paradyse——­

  1136.  Tys now fulle morne; I thoughten, bie laste nyghte—­

  Ch. 54.  Full well it shewn, he thoughten coste no sinne.

See also H. 2. 366. where thoughten, with the additional syllable, not being quite long enough for the verse, has had another syllable added at the beginning.

  Ne onne abash’d enthoughten for to flee.

And (what is still more curious) we have a participle of the present tense formed from this fictitious past time, in AE. 704.

  Enthoughteyng for to scape the brondeynge foe—­

Which would not have been a bit more intelligible in the XV Century than it would be now. Brondeynge will be taken notice of below.

Many other instances of the most unwarrantable anomalies might be produced under this head; but I think I have said enough to prove, that the language of these poems is totally different from that of the other English writers of the XV Century; and consequently that they were not written in that century; which was my first, proposition.  I shall now endeavour to prove, from the same internal evidence of the language, that they were written entirely by Thomas Chatterton.

For this purpose it will only be necessary to have recourse to those interpretations of words by way of Glossary, which were confessedly written by him[4].  It will soon appear, if I am not much mistaken, that the author of the Glossary was the author of the Poems.