After the Conquest, the Southern dialect continued to be the literary language, and we have several examples of it. Extracts from some of the chief works are given in Part I of Morris's _Specimens of Early English_. They are selected from the following: (1) _Old English Homilies_, 1150-1200, as printed for the Early English Text Society, and edited by Dr Morris, 1867-8. (2) _Old English Homilies, Second Series_, before 1200, ed. Morris (E.E.T.S.), 1873. (3) _The Brut_, being a versified chronicle of the legendary history of Britain, compiled by Layamon, a Worcestershire priest, and extending to 32,240 (short) lines; in two versions, the date of the earlier being about 1205. (4) _A Life of St Juliana_, in two versions, about 1210; ed. Cockayne and Brock (E.E.T.S.), 1872. (5) _The Ancren Riwle_, or Rule of anchorite nuns (Camden Society), ed. Morton, 1853; the date of composition is about 1210. (6) _The Proverbs of Alfred_, about 1250; printed in Dr Morris's _Old English Miscellany_ (E.E.T.S.), 1872. A later edition, by myself, was printed at Oxford in 1907. (7) A poem by Nicholas de Guildford, entitled _The Owl and the Nightingale_, about 1250; ed. Rev. J. Stevenson, 1838; ed. T. Wright, 1843; ed. F.H. Stratmann, of Krefeld, 1868. (8) A curious poem of nearly 400 long lines, usually known as _A Moral Ode_, which seems to have been originally written at Christchurch, Hampshire, and frequently printed; one version is in Morris's _Old English Homilies_, and another in the Second Series of the same. (9) _The Romance of King Horn_; before 1300, here printed in full.