{ 156} _Vengeans y’th glas_! is used by the wife of the smith who makes the nails for the Cross in the Drama of _The Passion_ (1. 2716).
{ 164} The spelling and mutations corrected.
{ 165} The spelling and mutations corrected.
{ 166} The spelling and mutations corrected.
{ 167} The spelling and mutations corrected.
{ 180a} Probably the apparent eight syllables in line 6 of the _Poem of the Passion_ may be accounted for in this way, and one should read _levarow_ as _larow_; cf. in the Breton of Treguier, _laret_ for _lavarout_, and the late Cornish _lawle_ for _lavarel_. In English the first would be no rhyme.
{ 180b} It may be that the Cornish ear for rhymes was like the French, and that the explanation is to be sought in a theory like that of the _rimes riches_ and the _consonne d’appui_ of modern French. In French _chercher_—_rocher_ is a better rhyme than _aimer_—_rocher_ (in each case with the accent on the last syllable).
{ 181} The numerals denote the number of syllables to each line. In the original a long _z_ is used for _dh_ and _th_.
{ 188} The spelling of one of the original MSS. has been preserved here, except that, in order to avoid confusion as to the number of syllables, the final mute _e_ is omitted. In this _ee_—_î_, _ea_=_ê_, _oo_=_ô_.
{ 189a} “I have only to add that the metre of _Christabel_ is not properly speaking irregular, though it may seem so through its being founded on a new principle, namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables.” (Preface to 1816 edition of _Christabel_.)
{ 189b} Spelling adapted to that of this grammar.
{ 196} Cf. the Arabic article _al_ prefixed to place-names in Southern Spain, and to nouns of Arabic derivation in Spanish.