Morrill, Georgiana Lea: Speculum Gy de Warewyke: an English poem : here for the first time printed and first edited from the manuscripts (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898)

clvi Chapter XIII.—On the Phonology of the Speculum.

e.
§ 6. Sources of long open e (e), written e, are as follows:
1. O.E. ce (umlaut of ai, Gc. ai) : mene (1. sing.) : clene 408;
mene (inf.) : dene 824, 848; dene : ene 366, 816; bidene : (tene)
191; euere : neuere (with redundant -e- in both instances through
svarabhakti) 280, 808; tedie (inf.) : reche (inf.) 98, 142, : (specie,
sb.) 2, 570, 754, : (Jeche) 70; gep : (unmep) 616 ; lede (inf.) : (drede,
sb.) 19, : (rede, sb.) 104. Here belong the composite forms with
the termination -hede : godhede : marihede 372, : (dede) 397, :
(drede) 379, 886; manhede : (dede) 617 ; falshede : (dede) 722; cf.
Kluge, Stammbildung and Curtis, Clariodus, § 240, Pabst, § 15, o),
also Paul’s Grundriss, I. p. 874.
2. O.E. e from various sources, lengthened in open syllables :
mete (T. mat-i) : iete 984; spelce : brelce 810; dele : wele (cf. Bul-
bring, D. Litt. Zeitung, 1894) 1018 ; stede, Sievers, Beitrdge, vol.
xvi. pp. 235 ff : dede 598, 604; stede : bede 562; for^ete : (iwlte)
193, : (wite) 764.
3. O.E. ea, Gc. au : ded (O.E. dead) : qued (or qued) 862 : fede
1025; bred : (red) 970; vnnep (adv. MSS. A2DH1) : (gep A1A2H1)
615; bileue (also bileue) : (greue) 201 ; ner : (power) 216 ; ek (Angl.
ec) : (fet) 439; les : (pes) 519 ; teres (O.E. tear c teagar, h to g by
Verner’s law) : (teres) 841; cf. Siev. Beitrdge, vol. ii. p. 411. Accord-
ing to the interpretation qued < O.E. cwead, rimes in qued belong
in this division, but cf. Pabst, § 15, b.
4. An ce lengthened from O.E. ce in other relationship : sede ( <
O.E. scede <. soegde) : (rede, inf.) 168; sede (seide) : (rede, 3 plur.)
691, : (drede) 140, 494. For seide in rime with rede, etc., cf. Wilda,
Schweifreimstr, etc., p. 12; Menze, p. 21, with reference to the
same rime, Hausknecht, Fl. and Bifl., pp. Ill, 116, Libeaus, Octavius
(Sarrazin), etc. sede is combined with rede, King Horn, 919 ; R. of
G. 38; Ed. I., p. 73.
5. O.E. ai developed into a monophthong before a dental: pes :
(les) 520.
e.
§ 7. Sources of long closed e (e) are :
A. Old English.
1. O.E. e. (a) Equivalent to O.E. e (lengthened in monosyllabic
words): me : pe 108, 392, 550, etc., : (be, 3. sing.) 790, : (se, inf.)
189, : (charite) 56, 323, : (meyne) 1015; pe in rime with (be, 3. sing.)
328, 334, : (be, 3. plu.) 413, : (be, inf.) 535, 588, : (se, inf.) 863, :