Note 77 — Chapter II · FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER—DISORGANISATION AND RECONSTRUCTION

I.e. forms like "hugy" (Sackville), "bleaky" (Dryden), and "paly" (Coleridge). These forms somehow identified themselves with the artificial poetic diction of the eighteenth century, and have, since the early part of the nineteenth, been rather eschewed by poets.