binnan burgum ⁊ butan ... butan hī ⁊ heora
printed as shown: expected form “būtan”
... alisendnesse is OE. ālīesednesse (but once ālȝsendnesse)
initial ā in both words corrected by author from “a”
ā + w is au in saule
ā corrected by author from a
7. ... Ūtfangeneþēof was the right to hang one’s own thief wherever caught
Utfangeneþēof
[V. A PARABLE]
[Manuscript:] Cotton Vespasian A 22, British Museum. It is composite; a second MS., 224 × 153 mm. in two columns, begins at f. 54 with the pieces printed in OEH i. 217-45. It is written in a small and crabbed hand unlike that of a professed scribe. The use of the contraction marks is unsystematic and the readings are sometimes uncertain. The other articles bound up with this MS. before and after are historical and largely connected with Rochester Monastery.
[Editions:] Morris, R., Old English Homilies, i, pp. 231-41 (with translation), and Specimens of Early English.
[Literature:] Vollhardt, W., Einfluss der lateinischen geistlichen Litteratur auf einige kleinere Schöpfungen der englischen Übergangsperiode, Leipzig, 1888; Lauchert, F., Englische Studien, xiii. 83; Heuser, W., Anglia, xvii. 82.
[Phonology:] a is a, fram 38, maniȝe 54, lange 83, sandon 30, but o in longe 155, sonden 161. æ wavers between e (28 times), feder 42, hwet 17, stef creft 89, þes 72, &c., wes 1, 94, 96, and a (16), fader 40, hwat 49, þas 43, was 19, 27, water 46. e is regularly e, engel 41, menn 31, but æ in ængles 166 (ængel), mæn 22, 78, næmmie 112, and a in anglene 139, angles 146, man, pl. 23, 76. i is i, for which y is written in cyldren 42, cyrce 108, scyft 117: it is e in ȝeðe (= iþe) 165, þeser 74, þeses 113, repen 169 (= ripon), swepen 13; u in swupen 132. o is o, but a, an 4, &c. (= on), þann 120, þáleð 123 (comp. the dialectic taal, Dan. taale, EDD). u is u, but o in come 7, icome 115, sonne 46, all associated with m or n. y is regularly e, berie 7, ded 73, drench 46, euel 41, ferst 167, gelty 153, senne 91, 95, 151, but i in þrimsettles 36, (dier)chin 45; y in cyme 87 (? cime); o in formest 50, 72. mycel is represented by mucele 129, 137, moche 90: king 1, drihte 52 have i, as often.
ā is mostly a, fa 25, na 55, þa 106; but o in anon 12, cofe 27, cofer 17, gefo 22, go 22, more 97, 120, non 38, soriȝe 104, to 147, þo 140. clone 15, an isolated form, represents clāne. ǣ1 is mostly e, arerde 80, clene 103, elc 112 (3), er 117, geð 157, helendes 87 (4), þer 139 (4); the traditional æ appears in ælc 91, 152, ær 18, 99, æer 21, ærst 69, ærndraches 16, 69; but it is a in halende 93, lat 124, stanene 81, þar 19 (7), unwraste 23; ea in unwreaste 79, 100, 104, 130, and eo once in leorde 109 (lǣrde) between l and r. ǣ2 is uniformly e, adredeð 147, letes 129. ē is regularly e, but dieð 51 (= deð). ī is i; written y in tyme 77: gescung 54 is apparently gītsung. ō is o without exception. ū is u; but uncoðe 22. ȳ is normally e, ceðen 16, 70, 113, fer 46, 143, 155, scred 42; but litl 160, leoðre 169.