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In verse, and particularly in alliterative verse, prepositions may follow the noun or pronoun: þe peple biforne, ‘in front of the people’, 9/123; him barones besyde, ‘barons beside him’, 11/142. Deferred prepositions at the end of relative or infinitive clauses, of the type þe prik þat he schoteþ to, 6/199–200, can be brought forward, especially in verse: þe werst piler on to biholde, ‘the worst pillar to look at’, 5/367; this present to plese with Honger, ‘this present to please Hunger with’, 7b/318.