Egypte the lesse and Ethiope,

Syria, and the land Judia,

These ben all in Asya.

The following grammar rules are of rather later date, and belong to the fifteenth century:—

Mi lefe chyld, I kownsel the

To forme thi vi tens, thou avise the,

And have mind of thi clensoune

Both of noune and of pronoun,

And ilk case in plurele

How thou sal end, avise the well;