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[Preface]

[I. Worcester Fragments (A)]

[I. Worcester Fragments (B, C)]

[II. Saint Godric’s Hymns]

[III. The Peterborough Chronicle]

[IV. Charter of Henry the Second]

[V. A Parable]

[VI. The Proverbs of Alfred]

[VII. Memento Mori]

[VIII. Poema Morale]

[IX. Ancrene Wisse]
[A. The Seven Deadly Sins]
[B. The Outer Rule]

[X. In Diebus Dominicis]

[XI. Hic Dicendum est de Propheta]

[XII. Sermons for Palm Sunday and Easter Day]

[XIII. Vices and Virtues]

[XIV. Laȝamon]

[XV. Orm]

[XVI. Sawles Warde]

[XVII. Saint Katherine]

[XVIII. The Orison of our Lady]

[XIX. Saint Juliana]

[XX. The Owl and the Nightingale]

[XXI. The Bestiary]

[XXII. Genesis and Exodus]

[XXIII. Kentish Sermons]

[Thematic Index] (added by transcriber)

SELECTIONS FROM
EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH
1130-1250

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES
BY
JOSEPH HALL
M.A., Hon. D.Litt., Durham University

PART II: NOTES

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AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

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HUMPHREY MILFORD
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY

[PREFACE]

The order of the vowels in the phonological sections follows Bülbring’s Altenglisches Elementarbuch, that of the consonants, Sievers’ Old English Grammar, translated by Cook. The basis of comparison is Early West Saxon. The object of these sections has been to provide collections for the interpretation of the teacher. In accidence Sievers has been followed generally, but Zupitza’s classification of the strong verbs has been adopted for convenience of use with Bülbring’s Geschichte der Ablaute. In the literature sections books marked with an asterisk are those which the student will find more immediately useful.

This book has been a long time in preparation; it will perhaps help to excuse some lack of uniformity if it be known that a great part of the notes was in type by the end of 1915.

J. H.

Woodstock,

January, 1920.