As will appear from the foregoing account of the MSS., the eighteen texts of the B version vary considerably in length, many of them introducing stanzas which do not recur elsewhere. A comparison of the number and arrangement of the stanzas in each text is given on the next page, the stanzas being numbered according to the order of their arrangement in the text to which they belong, and the corresponding stanzas in the various texts grouped under columns. MSS. Thornton, Selden, and Egerton have no mark of strophic division, but fall naturally into mono-rimed stanzas of four lines. All the remaining texts are arranged in four-lined stanzas with mono-rime,[9] with the exception of MS. Porkington, which represents an evident expansion of the original metrical scheme, an additional long line being attached to each stanza by means of a short bob-line, giving a six-lined stanza, _aaaabb_. In MS. Rawl. Poet. each long line is written as two short lines, so that the usual four-lined stanza appears in this text as two stanzas, each consisting of four half-lines. This arrangement is facilitated by the regular internal rime on the word _erthe_. The order of the fifteenth-century MSS. of the B version observed in the table corresponds to that in the foregoing list of MSS., and in the printed text, and is not always strictly chronological, it being more convenient for purposes of comparison to group the texts according to their length. It will be seen that the three late texts (MSS. Harl. 984, Maitland, and Reidpeth) revert to the normal seven-stanza type, and that this appears to have been the form of the poem known to the compiler of the Cambridge text, a comparison of which is added. [Transcriber’s Note: The printed table has been rotated 90% for this plain-text version. The numerical key (1-18, Cam) and the lettered notes (A, B...) were also added by the transcriber.] 1. Wm. Billyng’s Text 2. MS. Thornton 3. MS. Selden, supra 53 4. MS. Egerton 1995 5. MS. Harl. 1671 6. MS. Brighton 7. Stratford Inscription 8. MS. Rawl. C. 307 9. MS. Harl. 4486 10. MS. Lambeth 853 11. MS. Laud Misc. 23 12. MS. Cotton Titus A. xxvi 13. MS. Rawl. Poet. 14. MS. Porkington 10 15. MS. Balliol 354 16. MS. Harl. 984[10] 17. MS. Maitland 18. MS. Reidpeth Cam The Cambridge Text CS Common Stanzas IS Independent Stanzas