_On live_ is now contracted or corrupted into _alive_. Thus we say, _a-coming_, _a-saying_, _a-board_, _a-purpose_, _a-sleep_, _a-way_, &c., for _on_ coming, _on_ saying, _on_ board, _on_ purpose, &c. By which it appears that Dr. _Wallis_[62] is mistaken in supposing this Class of Words to be compounded with the Preposition _at_. _John Hopkins_, in his Version of Psalm lxxvii. 16, has retained the old Form, _on trembling_, for _a-trembling_; “The Waters, Lord, perceived thee, The Waters saw thee well, And they for Feare away did flee The Depths on trembling fell.” Numerous instances will be found in _Chaucer_[63], as, “On hunting ben they ridden really.” and again,[64] “He could hunt as the wilde dere, And ride on hauking for the rivere.” PAGE xxvi. line 2. haueþ. This Word should probably be _haven_; but it is _haveth_ in the MS. In the next Line, “byngȳn̄ge,” for “bygynnynge,” is an obvious Mistake of the MS. Ibid. line 9. weren two and twenty hundriddis of ȝeeris. By this Date the Writer probably intended the Interval from the Birth of _Heber_, to the Birth of CHRIST: which by the Computation of _Bede_ in his _Chronicon sive de sex ætatibus mundi_, wanted but five Years of 2200, a mere Trifle with such Expounders of Prophecy as our Author. Ibid. line 12. Eusebi, Bede, & Haymound. The Works here referred to are, probably, the _Chronicon_ of _Eusebius_, translated and preserved by St. _Jerome_[65]; the venerable _Bede’s Chronicon, sive de sex ætatibus mundi_; and the _Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ Breviarium, sive de Christianarum rerum memoria_, _Libb. X._ of _Haymo_, Bishop of _Halberstadt_, who died A.D. 853. PAGE xxvii. line 5. fro þe bygynnynge of Latyn lettris. That is to say, from the Foundation of _Rome_. The Writer speaks in round Numbers. Ibid. line 15. demynge. This Word is perhaps a Mistake of the Transcriber for _demed_, i. e. _deemed_, _considered_. PAGE xxviii. line 8. and þes ben uerse of .m. lettre. The Editor has not been able to find these Verses elsewhere. The Letters of the Alphabet are represented as _Collegæ_, or Members of a College, all the rest of whom go forth when the Gates are open; one only, viz. _m_, when they are shut. _College_ is for _Collegæ_. PAGE xxix. line 3. but bi helpe of Poul.