61. _Vxor._ Thise floodis not afright all this warld so wide Has mevid with myght on se and bi side. _Noe._ To dede ar thai dyght, prowdist of pryde, Euerich a wyght that euer was spyde With syn, 545 All ar thai slayn, And put vnto payn. _Vxor._ From thens agayn May thai neuer wyn? 62. _Noe._ Wyn? No, iwis, bot He that myght hase 550 Wold myn of thare mys, and admytte thaym to grace; As He in bayll is blis, I pray Hym in this space, In heven hye with His to purvaye vs a place, That we, With His santis in sight, 555 And His angels bright, May com to His light: Amen, for charité. _Explicit processus Noe._ [Foot-note: 129 chese] chefe _MS._] NOTES I #Dialect#: North-East Midland of Lincolnshire. #Inflexions#:— VERB: pres. ind. 2 sg. _hast_ 131. 3 sg. _stondeþ_ 8. 3 pl. _calle_ 32, _seye_ 254; beside _dos_ 157 (see note). imper. pl. _comeþ_ 80, _doþ_ 82. pres. p. _karoland_ (in rime) 117, 150, 222. strong pp. _wryte_ 37, _fal_ 195, _gone_ 161. PRONOUN 3 PERS.: fem. nom. _she_ 48; pl. nom. _þey_ 32; poss. _here_ 37; obj. _hem_ 39. The inflexions are very much simplified as compared with those of the Kentish _Ayenbyte_ (III), but the verse shows that final unaccented _-e_ was better preserved in the original than in our late MS., e.g. _And specyaly at hygh<ė> tymės_ 13. _For to see þys hard<ė> dome_ 173. _And at þe þre<ė> day<ė>s endė_ 198. _Þat nonė myȝt<ė> leye yn grauė_ 217. #Sounds#: _ǭ_ is regular for OE. _ā_: _lothe_ 9, _wroth_ 10, &c.; but the only decisive rime is _also_ (OE. _alswā_): _to_ (OE. _tō_) 35-6, where _ǭ_ after _(s)w_ has become close _ọ̄_; see Appendix § 8. ii, note. #Syntax#: the loose constructions, e.g. ll. 15 ff. (note), 134-5, 138-9, 216-19, are characteristic of the period. * * * * * The history of this legend is traced by E. Schröder, _Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte_, vol. xvii, 1896, pp. 94 ff., and, more summarily, by Gaston Paris, _Les Danseurs maudits_, Paris 1900. The circumstances from which it sprang appear to belong to the year 1021. Kölbigk, in Anhalt, Saxony, was the scene of the dance. In 1074 it is referred to as 'famous' by a German chronicler, who records the healing of one of the dancers in 1038 through the miraculous powers of St. Wigbert.