The most striking is the almost total loss of the final _-e_ which is so frequently required to form an extra syllable when we try to scan the poetry of Chaucer.
Even where a final _-e_ is written in the above extract, it is wholly silent.

The words _ware_ (were), _are_ (are), _myne_, _thine_, _toke_, _made_, _brede_, _hende_, _ende_, are all monosyllabic; and in fact the large number of monosyllabic words is very striking.

The words _onesprute_, _forcome_, _foryhelde_ are, in like manner, dissyllabic.
The only suffixes that count in the scansion are _-en_, _-ed_, and _-es_; as in _sam-en_, _skat'r-{`e}d_, _drev-{`e}d_, _hat-{`e}d_, etc., and _arw-{`e}s_, _well-{`e}s_, _watr-{`e}s_, etc.

The curious form _sal_, for "shall," is a Northern characteristic.

So also is the form _hende_ as the plural of "hand"; the Southern plural was often _hond-en_, and the Midland form was _hond-{`e}s_ or _hand-{`e}s_.