ci of vol.II of Macaulay's edition of Gower.

I may illustrate this by noting that in _Conf.

Amant._ i 1908, we find _pitt_ riming with _witt_, whereas in the same, v 4945, _pet_ rimes with _let_.
We know that, in 1386, the poet Chaucer was elected a knight of the shire for Kent, and in 1392-3 he was residing at Greenwich.

He evidently knew something of the Kentish dialect; and he took advantage of the circumstance, precisely as Gower did, for varying his rimes.
The earliest example of this is in his _Book of the Duchess_, l.

438, where he uses the Kentish _ken_ instead of _kin_ (A.S.