Note 233 — V
Reading edition
[The b was purposely foisted into these words by bookmen to suggest their Latin derivation; it did not belong to them in earlier English. The same may be said of the g, intruded into ‘deign’ and ‘feign’.]
Reading edition
[The b was purposely foisted into these words by bookmen to suggest their Latin derivation; it did not belong to them in earlier English. The same may be said of the g, intruded into ‘deign’ and ‘feign’.]