The MSS. thus fall into two groups, which are here adequately represented by the printed texts, for D is inferior and J much altered, indeed often rewritten. U, the original, was probably written about 1180 A.D. #Literature:# Einenkel, E., Anglia iv. Anz. 88-93; Jordan, R., ES xlii. 38-42 (dialect of L); Krüger, A., Sprache und Dialekt der ME. Homilien in der Handschrift B. 14. 52. Trinity College, Cambridge, Erlangen, 1885; Paues, A. C., Anglia xxx. 217-37; Zupitza, J., Anglia i. 5-38; iii. 32, 33; iv. 406-10. #Analogues:# Reimpredigt, ed. H. Suchier, Halle, 1879; Le Sermon de Guischart de Beauliu, ed. A. Gabrielson, Upsala, 1909; Guischart de Beauliu’s debt to religious learning and literature in England, by A. Gabrielson, Archiv cxxviii. 309-28. #Phonology:# (1) =of the Lambeth MS.= Oral #a# is _a_, baþien 245, faren 176; #a# before nasals is normally _o_, mon 22, þonc 71, but _a_ in manke 70, þanke 241, and þenne, þene, þen, wenne are the usual spellings, with occasional þanne 18, 160; #a# before lengthening groups is _o_, honde 81, ifonded 147; ent 159 is Anglian #end#. #æ# is mostly _e_, brec 183, et 92, feder 148, efþ 171 (#hæfð#), hwet 92 &c., weter 248, but _a_ in bað 218, fader 186, 195, habbe 3, 5, hwat 90, water 142, 194, 240. #e# is _e_, beren 95, ende 179, strengþe 168, but sullic 181 (#syllic#; comp. seollic L 18035), ni 77, meind 142 (#mengde#). #i# is _i_, biden 125, binden 216, child 148; after #w# it is _u_ in wule 34, 39, 155, wulleð 97, 226, uuel 123 (= nule), nute 236, nusten 102, 225. It is _e_ in þerdde 138, _u_ in ofsprung 207; boð 120 is miswritten for bið. #o# is _o_, bifore 16, borde 260, but after #w#, _a_, walde 49, nalde 185, 261; cumen 202 is #c(w)omon#. The prep. #on# is mostly a, sometimes an; #u# is _u_, cumeð 234, funde 68, but come 124, 221, iwoned 57 in contact with #m#, #n#, #w#. #y# is mostly _u_, abuȝeð 195, cunne 202, duden 265, sunne 201, swuch 80, þunchen 62; before lengthening groups, sungede 258, but _i_ in afirst 37, hwice 136, lifte 83, ofþinchþ 130 (5), swich 80 (3), and _e_ in dede 2, vnnet 5: king 50, drihten 80, drihte 110 are the only forms of these words. #ā# is normally _a_, an 26, are 179, hwam 202, þa 190; before consonant groups, are 207, hattre 247, but it is _o_ in hom 95, hwon 105, þo 53, wori 142, _e_ through loss of stress in se 80 &c., þe 169. #ǣ{1}# is _e_, eni 53, er 11, þen 71, ech 32, efre 68, ledden 209, but _a_ in anige 269, þan 74: uches 90 descends from ylc. #ǣ{2}# is always _e_, adrede 6, brede 143, lende 122, uniselðe 198. #ē# is always _e_; #ī#, _i_; #ō#, _o_, but _e_ in te 108: na 134 is Anglian #nā#. #ū# is always _u_. #ȳ# is normally _u_, cudde 191, fur 76, hud 77, lutel 46, but litel 28, hwi 104.