Similarly for Greek Χρ (Chi, rho):
placinge ther xþemas (_Christmasse_) a p{ar}te of this tyme of
Nowell .... ante xþi (_Christi_) natalitia viginti aut triginta
dies quodam desiderio.
The 1876 text gives only the expanded (Roman script) form of words
in Chr-.
Hebrew:
for thus he writethe: נאל noel
[_both editions misprint באל with bet ב for nun נ_]
Introduction
a careful copier with a clean pen, indefatiguable [_unchanged_]
a ribald wit might create terrible havock [_unchanged_]
Footnote 2 [_reference missing, supplied from 1876 edition_]
Martin Chuzzelwit the elder [_unchanged_]
demanding why Falstalf [_unchanged_]
List of Thynne’s Works
18 ... since the reign of the conqueror. [_extraneous close quote_]
Errors corrected from 1876 edition:
_This list includes missing letters that were silently supplied in
1865: that is, the text is right but the MS reading was wrong. It
does not include misplaced italics such as “tri{u}m” for “triu{m}”._
the Romans in the heigh[t]e of their glorye [heighe]
selfe will or fonnd conceyte [found]
Chaucers woorkes haue byn sithens printed twyce [sitheus]
that lerned and eloquent kn[i]ghte [knighte]
as I have herde S^r Johne Thynne reporte [St. Johne]
as the chanons yomane [chanous]
[_all occurrences of “chanons” in this passage are printed
“chanous” in 1865_]
the recordes in Dorso Rotulor. patent. [Rolulor]
[_1876 edition also adds “me{m}b.” after “patent.”_]
datu{m} per manu{m} Walteri Merton [Walleri]
consorti ipsius Regis &c.” [_close quote missing_]
“Rogero couentry &c [_open quote missing_]
so had the[y] fewer Rooses placed [they]
euerye manne to his owne iudgemente [iudgemte]
Gersone soughte no further meanynge [meanyuge]
tantiq{ue} quanti placuit vendiderunt.” [_close quote missing_]
(otherwise called “Flores Historiarum” or “Florilegus”)
[_printed with open parenthesis, close bracket_]
almoste to the heigh[t]e of perfect{i}one [heighte]
solitaq{ue} est hec vox cantari a plebe [cantaria]
shewe those courses of gouer[n]mente, [gouernmente]
(“Manye a florence.”) [’ for ”]
in another place callethe scutes or frenche crownes [calle the]
yo{u}r e[x]posit{i}one of unseriall [exposit{i}one]
tria virginis ora Dianæ,) [_close parenthesis missing_]
that all his streng[t]he and vitall Sprites [strengthe]
a pointe at streng[t]he is looste [strengthe]
agreethe not well with Chaucers meanynge [Chancers]
Whiche facte was [in] the 39. H. 3. [_“in” not bracketed_]
with change of many manner of meates, [_superfluous close bracket_]
Regis nomen superiori aut Iudici tribuitur,
[_superfluous close quote_]
Rex Ribaldoru{m} et prouostus Hospitii
[_“pro-/vuostus” at line break_]
si iteru{m} inventa in Balliuâ suâ [Ballinâ]
many iudgmentes mighte at leng[t]he obteyne [lengthe]
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