[5] The following are the chief omissions:—1. Genesis, chapters ii. 10-14; ix. 20-27, x. 2-7, 10-32; xxiii. 3-20; xxx. 1-5, 14-16, 37-43; xxxi. 1-17; xxxvi.; xxxviii.; xlviii.; xlix. 1-27. 2. Exodus, chapters xii. 40-51; xiii. 1-16; xx. 20-26; xxi.; xxii.; xxiii.; xxv.; xxvi.; xxvii.; xxviii.; xxix.; xxx.; xxxi.; xxxiii. 12-23; xxxiv. 1-32; xxxv.; xxxvi.; xxxvii.; xxxviii.; xxxix.; xl. [6] Numbers, chapters xi.; xii.; xiii.; xiv.; xvi.; xvii.; xix.; xx.; xxi.; xxii.; xxiii.; xxiv.; xxv.; xxvi.; xxvii.; xxxi. Deut. xxxiv. [7] Natural marks? [8] MS. in-sile. [9] The Bestiary presents not only the same _grammatical_ and _verbal_ forms which distinguish the Genesis and Exodus from other Early English compositions, but also its _orthographical_ peculiarities, _e.g._ _ſ_ for _sch_; _ð_ for _th_; _g_ for _y_ and _ȝ_ (_gh_), etc. The editor assigns this poem to the _early_ part of the thirteenth century. [10] Warton assigned it to the reign of Henry II. or Richard I.; Sir F. Madden to the time of Henry III. (1216-1272). [11] Those employed (about _fifty_ altogether) are more or less technical—_aucter_, _auter_, _astronomige_, _arsmetrike_, _bigamie_, _bissop_, _crisme_, _charité_, _canticle_, _circumcis_, _corune_, _crune_, _desert_, _graunte_, _gruchede_, _holocaust_, _hostel_, _iurnee_, _iusted_ (allied), _lecherie_, _lepre_, _mount_, _mester_, _meister_, _neve_ (nephew), _offiz_, _pais_, _plente_, _pore_, _present_, _prest_, _pris_, _prisun_, _promissioun_, _prophet_, _roche_, _sacrede_, _scité_ (city), _spirit_, _spices_, _suriurn_ (sojourn), _swinacie_ (quinsy), _serue_, _seruice_, _ydeles_, _ydolatrie_. [12] Since writing the above I have printed for the Early English Text Society "Old English Homilies, 2nd Series," which are earlier than the Ormulum, and contain many East Midland peculiarities. "The Wooing of Our Lord" in Old English Homilies, 1st Series, contains some peculiarities of the West Midland dialect. [13] See Preface to O.E. Hom., 2nd Series. [14] It must be recollected that the Ormulum is much earlier than the Story of Genesis and Exodus. [15] See Ormulum, Introduction, p. lxxviii., note 105; lxxxi., note 112.