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as in the case of Feruinbras.
(17) The I)estruction of Troy (DT)
The loss of the adverb ne is particularly pronounced in DT, as the
following table displays:
liT ne me.. .not not I - I Totals I
without 9 8 I 168 I - I 185 I
Inever,no,etc. j(4.9%) I (4.3%) I (90.8%) I I
with I 0 I 0 I 12 I 359 I 371 I
Inever,no,etc.I I (3.2%) I (96.8%) I I
ITotals I 9 I 8 I 180 I 359 I 556 I
H I I I
Some examples illustrating the above table are given below:
(a) Ne
Hit might sothely be siche on, as your self nold
ffor mykill of Jis medill erthe Jat myschefe to se (7585-6)
Ne hade Priam the prise kyng preset horn aboute,
Pat was feghtyng in the feld on the fer syde,
Myche murthe of his men & myschefe hade fallyn (9053-5).
(b) Ne ... not
(c) Not
Ne trawes not, tru lady, Jat I take wolde
Thy ladyship to losse, ne in lust holde (3351-2)
Ne hopis ou noght, bend doghtur, Jat our hegh goddes
Wold be wrothe at our werkes, & wisshe vs to skathe
(814 5-6).
He for3et not, but 3epely 3arkit hym j'erfore (882)
We fors not his frendship, ne fere of his hate (1929)
I think not, by my thrifte, for no Jro wordys (1883)
Pai salut not Jat souerain with no sad wordes (4981).
(d) Without the adverbs ne and not
Whyle you rixlis in this Rearne no riot we drede (221)
And he cast be course what shuld come after,
Shuld neuer purpos vnperisshit be putto A yssu (2459-60).
The manuscript of DT is dated around the middle of the fifteenth
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