[Footnote 6: The peculiarities referred to do not appear to be owing to the copyist of the Lincoln manuscript (Robert de Thornton, a native of Oswaldkirk in Yorkshire), who, being a Northumbrian, would probably have restored the original readings. The non-Northumbrian forms in the Morte Arthure are-- 1. The change of _a_ into _o_, as _bolde_ for _balde_, _bote_ for _bate_, _one_ for _ane_, _honde_ for _hande_, _londe_ for _lande_; 2. _they_, _theyre_, _them_, _theym_, for _thay_, _thaire_, _tham_; 3. _gayliche_, _kindliche_, _semlyche_, etc., for _gayly_, _kindly_, _seemly_, etc. (the termination _lich_, _liche_, was wholly unknown to the Northumbrian dialect, being represented by _ly_ or _like_); 4. _churle_, _churche_, _iche_, _mache_, _myche_, _syche_, _wyrche_, etc., for _carle_, _kirke_, _ilk_, _make_, _mykelle_, _swilk_, _wyrk_, etc.; 5. infinitives in _-en_, as _drenschen_, _schewenne_, _wacchenne_, etc.; 6. the use of _eke_, _thos_, for _als_ (_alswa_), _thas_; 7. the employment of _aye_ for _egg_. The former word _never_ occurs in any pure Northumbrian work, while the latter is seldom met with in any Southern production.] [Footnote 7: The poems are _Northern_ in contradistinction to _Southern_, but they are not Northern or Northumbrian in contradistinction to _Midland_.] [Footnote 8: Printed by Mr. D. Laing in his “Inedited Pieces,” from a MS. of Mr. Heber’s. Other copies are in the Vernon MS., and Cotton Calig. A. ii.; the latter imperfect.] [Footnote 9: Other specimens of this dialect will doubtless turn up. Mr. Brock has found a MS. in British Museum (Harl. 3909) with most of the peculiarities pointed out by me in the preface to the present work, and I believe that this dialect was probably a flourishing one in the 13th century. See O.E. Homilies, p. li.] [Footnote 10: (1) _en_ as the inflexion of the pres. tense pl., indic. mood of verbs; (2) _s_ in the second and third pers. sing. of verbs; (3) _ho_ = she; (4) _hit_ = its; (5) _tow_ = two; (6) _deȝter_ = daughters, etc.] [Footnote 11: See p. 36, ll. 1052-1066; p. 37, ll. 1074-1089; pp. 161-162, ll. 4956-4975.] [Footnote 12: See pp. 25, 26 (Jason’s unfaithfulness); pp. 74, 75, ll. 2241-2255; p. 75, ll. 2256-2263; p. 69, ll. 2267-2081; p. 158, ll. 4839-4850; p. 189, ll. 4881-4885; p. 165, ll. 5078-5086, etc.] [Footnote 13: In the Harl. MS. 3909, nearly all the p. part. and preterites end in _-et_ (_-ut_ and _-et_ occur in Romances ed. by Robson).] [Footnote 14: This seems to furnish an etymology for _Clent_ Hills, Worcestershire--_brent_ is the term employed in Alliterative.]