[34] Z. f. d. A., xxxviii. 304.

[35] Certayne notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or ryme in English, 1575; Arber’s reprint, London, 1868, p. 34.

[36] Ane Schort Treatise, conteining some Revlis and Cautelis to be obseruit and eschewit in Scottis poesie, 1585, pp. 63 ff. of Arber’s reprint. The scheme would be ` ` ´ ` ` ´ ` ` ´ ` ` ´ `.

[37] From Hickes’s Antiq. Literat. Septentrional., tom. i, p. 217.

[38] It is now well known that this innovation was introduced much earlier.

[39] From Alexander Montgomery, The Flyting, &c., l. 476.

[40] ‘Über den Versbau der alliterierenden Poesie, besonders der Altsachsen,’ Bay. Akademie der Wissenschaften, philos.-histor. Classe, iv. 1, p. 207 ff.

[41] Litteraturgeschichte, p. 45 ff., second ed., p. 57.

[42] Über die germanische Alliterationspoesie, Vienna, 1872, and Zum Muspilli, &c., Vienna, 1872.

[43] ‘Über die Verstheilung der Edda,’ Zeitschr. für deutsche Phil., Ergänzungsband, p. 74.