text:  The metrical hypothesis to which Tyrwhitt's labours gave a lustre much heightened by the Anglo-Saxon studies abroad and at home of the present century bears--first that in the language of Chaucer's day these syllables were still audible; and secondly that Chaucer consequently employed them in his verse like any other syllables with the due metrical value:--herein not as the Laureate thought overruling but conforming himself to the use of his mother tongue