A History of English VersificationSchipper, J. (Jakob)
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A History of English Versification
Schipper, J. (Jakob)
English language -- Versification; English poetry -- History and criticism
_In the =t=ýme of Árthour, | as =t=réw men me =t=áld_.
Golagras and Gawane, 1.
Fourteenth Century, End:
_Moste =m=ýghty =M=áhowne | =m=éng you with =m=ýrthe,
Both of búrgh and of tówne, | by =f=éllys and by =f=ýrthe._
Towneley Mysteries, p. 140.
_Oute, alás, I am góne! | oute apón the, mans wónder!_
ibid. p. 30.
Fourteenth Century, Second Half:
_In a =s=ómer =s=éson, | whan =s=óft was the =s=ónne._
Piers Plowman, Prol. 1.
_Þen com a =v=óis to Jóseph | and séide him þise =w=órdes._
Joseph of Arimathie, 21 (about 1350).
Fourteenth Century, Beginning:
_Ich herde =m=én vpo =m=óld | =m=áke much =m=ón._
Wright's Pol. Songs.
_=L=ýstneþ =L=órdynges, | a newe sóng ichulle bigýnne._
ibid. p. 187.
Thirteenth Century, Middle:
_Álle =b=èon he =b=líþe | þat tò my sóng líþe:
A =s=óng ihc schàl you =s=ínge | of Múrry þe kínge._
King Horn, 1-4.
Thirteenth Century, Beginning:
_And swá heo gùnnen wénden | fórð tò þan kínge._
Layamon, 13811-12.
_Vmbe =f=íftene ȝér | þat =f=ólc is isómned._ ibid. 13855-6.
Twelfth Century:
_þat þe =ch=íriche hàbbe grýþ | and þe =ch=éorl bèo in frýþ
his =s=édes to =s=ówen, | his =m=édes to =m=ówen._
Proverbs of Alfred, 91-4.
_=b=úte if he =b=éo | in =b=óke iléred._ ibid. 65-6.
Eleventh Century, End:
_þat he nám be wíhte | and mid mýcelan únrìhte._
Chron. an. 1087.
Eleventh Century, First Half:
_súme hi man =b=énde, | =s=úme hi man =b=lénde._
Chron. an. 1037.
_ne wearð =d=reṓrlìcre =d=ǣ́d | ge=d=ṓn on þisan éarde._ ibid.
Eleventh Century, Beginning:
_se of ǽðelre =w=ǽs | vírginis pártū
=c=lǣ́ne a=c=énned, | =C=hrístus in órbem._
Oratio Poetica, ed. Lumby.
_hwæt! ic =ā́=na sǽt | =í=nnan béarwe,
mid =h=élme beþéaht, | =h=ólte tō-míddes,
þǣr þā wǽterbúrnan | swḗgdon and úrnon,
on míddan gehǽge, | éal =s=wā ic =s=écge._
Be Dōmes Dæge.
_þæt =S=ámson se =s=tránge | swā of=s=lḗan míhte
=ā́=n þūsend mánna | mid þæs =á=ssan cínbā́ne._
Ælfric, Judges, 282-3.
Tenth Century, End:
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