which remains unadjusted.

A number of editorial corrections are without Footnotes or Notes. The manuscript readings for these are here supplied by the transcriber from the editions of Hamelius and England & Pollard:

IX166Sythye] Sychye MS.
IX270it] is MS.
IX287greuous] grouous MS.
XVII85displeases] displeasse MS.
XVII472thou] thi MS.

The line numbering has been regularised to multiples of 5. Lines of prose have their line numbers at the right side of the text, or in some reading devices, line numbers will appear in {braces} within the text.

The companion volume,
A Middle English Vocabulary, designed for use with SISAM's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose, by J. R. R. Tolkien
is available at PG #43737.