Caxton. Rise of the Midland dialect. "Scottish" and "English."
Jamieson's Dictionary. "Middle Scots." Quotation from Dunbar.
VI. THE SOUTHERN DIALECT. Alfred the Great. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Old English Homilies. The Brut. St Juliana. The Ancren Riwle. The
Proverbs of Alfred. The Owl and the Nightingale. A Moral Ode.
Robert of Gloucester. Early history of Britain. The South-English
Legendary. The Harleian MS. 2253. The Vernon MS. John Trevisa.
The Testament of Love.
VII. THE SOUTHERN DIALECT OF KENT. Quotation from Beda. Extract from an
Old Kentish Charter. Kentish Glosses. Kentish Sermons. William of
Shoreham; with an extract. The Ayenbite of Inwyt. The Apostles'
Creed in Old Kentish. The use of _e_ for A.S. _y_ in Kentish. Use
of Kentish by Gower and Chaucer. Kentish forms in modern English.
VIII. THE MERCIAN DIALECT. East Midland. Old Mercian Glossaries of the
eighth century. The Lorica Prayer. The Vespasian Psalter. The
Rushworth MS. Old Mercian and Wessex compared. Laud MS. of the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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