Specimens of Early English: A New Edition, Revised for Third Time with Introduction, Notes, and Glossarial IndexClarendon Press, 1894 - English literature |
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Page xviii
... W. W. Skeat , prefixed to vol . iii . of ' The Percy Folio MS . ' ed . Hales and Furnivall . 2 See Higden's account of these dialects , pp . 240 and 343 . us to understand that admixture of grammatical forms which is xviii INTRODUCTION .
... W. W. Skeat , prefixed to vol . iii . of ' The Percy Folio MS . ' ed . Hales and Furnivall . 2 See Higden's account of these dialects , pp . 240 and 343 . us to understand that admixture of grammatical forms which is xviii INTRODUCTION .
Page 26
... Skeat. cérmit His telde to be in his vmgang ; Mirke watres þat ware of hewe , In þe kloudes of þe skewe . 13 For ... ww 45 50 55 60 25 And Lauerd to me foryhelde he sal After mi 26 II . METRICAL ENGLISH PSALTER .
... Skeat. cérmit His telde to be in his vmgang ; Mirke watres þat ware of hewe , In þe kloudes of þe skewe . 13 For ... ww 45 50 55 60 25 And Lauerd to me foryhelde he sal After mi 26 II . METRICAL ENGLISH PSALTER .
Page 138
... W. W. Skeat , with Sir F. Madden's assistance , from the unique MS . ( No. 13 ) in the library of King's College , Cam- bridge . • Hit bi - fel in pat forest · þere fast by - side , þer woned a wel old cherl · þat was a couherde , þat ...
... W. W. Skeat , with Sir F. Madden's assistance , from the unique MS . ( No. 13 ) in the library of King's College , Cam- bridge . • Hit bi - fel in pat forest · þere fast by - side , þer woned a wel old cherl · þat was a couherde , þat ...
Page 175
... W. W. Skeat ; the first two volumes have already appeared . The following extracts are from the A - text , which is based upon the copy in the Vernon MS . in the Bodleian Library , the dialect of which is Southern , with Midland ...
... W. W. Skeat ; the first two volumes have already appeared . The following extracts are from the A - text , which is based upon the copy in the Vernon MS . in the Bodleian Library , the dialect of which is Southern , with Midland ...
Page 203
... W. W. Skeat from a MS . in the library of St. John's College , Cambridge , written A.D. 1487 , with collations from the MS . in the Advocate's Library at Edinburgh , written A.D. 1489 , and the early printed editions . We extract from ...
... W. W. Skeat from a MS . in the library of St. John's College , Cambridge , written A.D. 1487 , with collations from the MS . in the Advocate's Library at Edinburgh , written A.D. 1489 , and the early printed editions . We extract from ...
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Page 295 - For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.
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Page 168 - For thinges passed out of longe tyme from a Mannes mynde or from his syght, turnen sone into forzetynge: Because that Mynde of Man ne may not ben comprehended ne witheholden, for the Freeltee of Mankynde.
Page 174 - In that Contree ben many Griffounes, more plentee than in ony other Contree. Sum men seyn, that thei han the Body upward as an Egle, and benethe as a Lyoun: and treuly thei seyn sothe, that thei ben of that schapp. But o Griffoun...
Page 222 - Forsothe an other felde doun on stony placis, wher it had nat myche erthe ; and anoon it sprong vp, for it hadde nat depnesse of erthe.
Page 167 - ... the Holy Citee of Jerusalem, and the holy Places that are thereaboute. And I schalle telle the Weye, that thei schulle holden thidre. For I have often tymes passed and ryden the way, with gode Companye of many Lordes : God be thonked.
Page 167 - Crist MCCCXXII, in the Day of Seynt Michelle; and hidre to have ben longe tyme over the See, and have seyn and gon thorghe manye dyverse Londes, and many Provynces and Kingdomes and...
Page 166 - Covetyse and Envye han so enflawmed the Hertes of Lordes of the World, that thei are more besy for to disherite here Neyghbores, more than for to chalenge or to conquere here righte Heritage before seyd. And the comoun Peple, that wolde putte here Bodyes and here Catelle, for to conquere oure Heritage, thei may not don it withouten the Lordes. For a semblee of Peple withouten a Cheventeyn, or a chief Lord, is as a Flock of Scheep withouten a Schepperde; the which departeth and desparpleth, and wyten...
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