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_cynn_) in order to secure a rime for _ten_.
In the _Canterbury Tales_, E 1057, he has _kesse_, to kiss (A.S.
_cyssan_), to rime with _stedfastnesse_. In the same, A 1318, he has _fulfille_, to fulfil (cf.
A.S.
_fyllan_, to fill), to rime with _wille_; but in Troilus, iii 510, he changes it to _fulfelle_, to rime with _telle_; with several other instances of a like kind. It is further remarkable that some Kentish forms seem to have established themselves in standard English, as when we use _dent_ with the sense of _dint_ (A.S.
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