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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century

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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century

English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500

The third and concluding portion of the Cotton volume extends from fol.
127 to fol. 140b, inclusive, and consists of theological excerpts, in
Latin, written in a hand of the end of the thirteenth century. At the
conclusion is added _Epitaphium de Ranulfo, abbate Ramesiensi_, who was
abbot from the year 1231 to 1253, and who is erroneously called _Ralph_
in the _Monasticon_, vol. ii. p. 548, new ed.

    [Footnote 67: Taken with some few alterations from Sir F. Madden’s
    “Syr Gawayn.”]

    [Footnote 68: A line, however, is missing from the MS. on fol.
    55b. See page 15.]




CONTRACTIONS USED IN THE GLOSSARY.


The letters A. B. C. refer severally to the poems, entitled by me, “The
Pearl,” “Cleanness,” and “Patience.”

  A.S.          Anglo-Saxon.
  Dan.          Danish.
  Du.           Dutch.
  E.            English.
  O.E.          Old English.
  Prov.E.       Provincial English.
  N.Prov.E. }   North Provincial English.
  N.P.E.    }
  Fr.           French.
  O.Fr.         Old French.
  Prov.         Fr. Provincial French.
  Fris.         Frisian.
  G. Doug.      Gawin Douglas’s Æneid, published by the
                    Bannatyne Club, 2 vols.
  Ger.          German.
  Goth.         Gothic.
  Icel.         Icelandic.
  Jam.          Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary.
  K. Alex.      King Alexander, Romance of (Ed. Stevenson).
  Met. Hom.     Metrical Homilies (Ed. Small).
  O.N.          Old Norse.
  O.S.          Old Saxon.
  Prompt. Parv. Promptorium Parvulorum (Ed. Way).
  Sc.           Scotch.
  O.Sc.         Old Scotch.
  S.Sax.        Semi-Saxon.
  Sw.           Swedish.
  O.Sw.         Old Swedish.
  Town. Myst.   Townley Mysteries.
  T. B.         Troy Book (Ed. Donaldson).




  Errata (noted by transcriber)

  PREFACE:
  [Footnote 4.III]
  ... for _-ed_ or _-d_  [or _d_]
  ... pp. vii, viii.  [vii. viii.]
  [Footnote 5]
  ... verbal inflexion _-eth_ _never_ occurs  [_-eth_. _never_]
  [Footnote 9]
  ... See O.E. Homilies, p. li.  [O.E]
  [Footnote 10]
  ... (5) _tow_ = two;  [two:]
  their blissful state (p. 26).  [(p. 26),]
  (IX.) ... by Daniel (p. 86).  [p, 86]
  _First marred[21] many a rope and the mast after._
    [_footnote number misprinted “2”; shared note is 1_]

  DIALECT AND GRAMMAR:
  “For þer bene bestes þat _schyn_ be rost.”[44]  [““For þer bene]

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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century

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