[205] Cf. the essay by Gosse in The Cornhill Magazine, No. 211, July, 1877, pp. 53–71.

[206] Französische Verslehre, Berlin, 1879, p. 388.

[207] Ritson’s Ancient Songs, i. 128, written, it is true, in five-foot verses; the repetition of the two refrain-verses in the proper place, however, is not indicated in the edition, and a slight emendation of the text is also required by the sense, viz. hath sprung instead of that sprang in the last line.

[208] London, Chatto & Windus, 1833.

[209] The Works of John Gower, ed. G. C. Macaulay, Oxford, 1899, vol. i, pp. 335 ff.

Transcriber’s Notes

Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text, and renumbered consecutively to be unique. The sole footnote reference on p. 250 was mis-numbered, and is corrected here as footnote 173.

In sections § 25-30, the subtypes of line types A, B, C, etc. are printed as A1, but in later sections these are printed as subscripts A1, with subvarieties as A1a, etc. This practice was followed here as well.

There are cases where punctuation, spelling or spacing seem questionable, particularly in quoted matter. Where possible, these have been checked against images of the sources Schipper used. Corrections made to the text are as follows:

[p. 46]Beow. 499[,] 1542, 2095, 2930Missing comma added.
[p. 53]ges[c´/é]aftThe accent on ‘c’ is likely a printer’s error.
[p. 76]-en, -es, [-]eþAdded missing hyphen.
[p. 88]J. A. 31[.]Added missing stop.
[p. 100]Nou haþ prúde þe p[r´i/rí]sThe accent on ‘r’ is likely misplaced.
[p. 128 n 1.]Chambers’s Cyclop. of Eng. Lit[.],Missing ‘.’ in abbreviation.
[p. 156]in váyn: s[d/á]yen Sur. 31;Probable printer’s error.
[p. 168]prayer: p[r]ayrMissing ‘r’ inserted.
[p. 169]carry ’em (=carry them[)]Closing ‘)’ inserted.
[p. 205]How féw to g[oó/óo]d efféctAccent should appear on first vowel.
[p. 216]that búd and blóom forth[ ]bríngsMissing space inserted.
[p. 224](1550–1700),[’]Spurious apostrophe removed.