| Alys. | | Kyng Alysaunder. |
| AS. | | Anglo-Saxon. |
| B. | | The Life of Beket. |
| β | | The Legend of St Brandan. |
| comp. | | comparative. |
| Cok. | | The Land of Cokaygne. |
| Cotgr. | | Cotgrave. |
| Dut. | | Dutch. |
| Fall and P. | | The Poem on the Fall and Passion. |
| Fr. Sci. | | The Fragment on Popular Science in the Lives of Saints. |
| Fr. | | French. |
| Hall. | | Halliwell. |
| HD. | | Havelok the Dane. |
| Kil. | | Kilian. |
| Laȝ. | | Laȝamon. |
| L. P. | | Specimens of Lyric Poetry, ed. Wright. |
| lit. | | literally. |
| Marg. | | The Life of St Margaret. |
| M. G. | | Mæso-Gothic. |
| M. Ode. | | The Moral Ode. |
| N. and Q. | | Notes and Queries. |
| O. and N. | | Owl and Nightingale. |
| ON. | | Old Norse. |
| O. H. G. | | Old High German. |
| Orm. | | Ormulum. |
| part. | | participle. |
| Pol. S. | | Political Songs. |
| pret. | | præterite. |
| Ps. | | Psalm. |
| Rel. S. | | Religious Songs. |
| RG. | | Robert of Gloucester. |
| Ritson’s AS. | | Ritson’s Ancient Songs. |
| Roq. | | Roquefort. |
| S. S. | | Semi-Saxon. |
| sb. | | substantive. |
| sup. | | superlative. |
| v. a. | | verb active. |
| v. n. | | verb neuter. |
| W. | | Welsh. |
| Warton, H. E. P. | | Warton’s History of English Poetry. |