text: " In like manner in Chaucer as in all our old poets of every degree there occur over and over again such natural forms of expression as "I wot " "I wis"--and where they do occur let us have them too and be thankful; but poverty-stricken in the article of rhymes must _be he_ who is perpetually driven to resort to such expedients as the following--all of which are Mr Horne's own:-- "Of fees and robes he many had I ween