Peacock's (Lincolnshire) Glossary, 44 _Pearl, The_, 80 Phonetic decay, 3 Plays, early, 41 Plurals, Southern, 61 _Prick of Conscience_, 28 _Proverbs of Alfred_, 49 Psalter, by Hampole, 32 Prose Treatises, by the same, 32 Psalter, Northumbrian, 25-27 West Midland, 80 Ramsay, Allan, 45 Ray, John, collection of dialectal words, 101 Rimy, 8, 9 rind, 9 Robert of Gloucester, 50 Rolle, of Hampole, 28, 32, 35 Romances, dialect of, 44 list of, 38-40 Ross, Alexander, 45 Rushworth MS., 22, 23, 70-72 Ruthwell Cross, 18, 19, 20 Scandinavian words in dialects, 88-93 list of, 90-93 Scots, Middle, 44, 45 Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 45 Scottish and English, 43, 44 Scottish Laws, early, 32 Shakespeare, 5, 6, 50 use of dialect, 100 Sheffield dialect, 121, 122 Shoreham, Wm. of, 58 quoted, 59 Shropshire dialect, 127-128 Skeat, _Chaucer Canon_, 73 _Etymological Dictionary_, 84-85 _Gospels in Anglo-Saxon_, 71 Index to _Icelandic Dictionary_, 89 _Primer of English Etymology_, 84 _Principles of English Etymology_, 70, 87, 89 Skinner, S., _Etymologicon_, 100 Smith, G. Gregory, _Specimens of Middle Scots_, 44, 45 _South English Legendary_, 51 Southern dialect, 47-55 Southey, R., his use of dialect, 111 _Specimens of Early English_ Part I., 49, 50 Part II., 51, 79. _See_ Morris Spenser's _Shepherd's Calendar_, 99 Stephens, Prof., 18 Sussex dialect, 130-132 Sweet, Dr, 15 _Anglo-Saxon Primer_, 48 _Anglo-Saxon Reader_, 18 _Anglo-Saxon Reader, Dialectal_, 56-57 _Oldest English Texts_, 10, 15, 19, 66 Gregory's _Pastoral Care_, 7 Tannahill, Robert, 45 Tennyson, 4, 111 _Testament of Love_, 53, 54 Trevisa, John, 53, 55 Tusser, T., _Pointes of Husbandrie_, 99 Twenty, 3 Usk, Thomas, 53, 54 Vernon MS., 52 _Vespasian Psalter_, 69, 70 Wessex _see_ Anglo-Saxon Westmoreland dialect, 117, 118 William of Palerne, 80 Wiltshire dialect, 128-129 Wise, J.R., 5 Wright, Dr J., _English Dialect Dictionary_, 9, 85, 90, 104 Wright, T., _Political Songs_, 29 Wyntoun, 29, 33 Yon, 6, 7 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {Transcriber's Correction: Chapter III: courageous before all men; I (the cross) durst not bow down _text reads_ ... bow dow }