_Ormulum, The_, 73, 74
_Owl and Nightingale_, 49

Peacock's (Lincolnshire) Glossary, 44
_Pearl, The_, 80
Phonetic decay, 3
Plays, early, 41
Plurals, Southern, 61
_Prick of Conscience_, 28
_Proverbs of Alfred_, 49
Psalter, by Hampole, 32
Prose Treatises, by the same, 32
Psalter, Northumbrian, 25-27
West Midland, 80

Ramsay, Allan, 45
Ray, John, collection of dialectal words, 101
Rimy, 8, 9
rind, 9
Robert of Gloucester, 50
Rolle, of Hampole, 28, 32, 35
Romances, dialect of, 44
list of, 38-40
Ross, Alexander, 45
Rushworth MS., 22, 23, 70-72
Ruthwell Cross, 18, 19, 20

Scandinavian words in dialects, 88-93
list of, 90-93
Scots, Middle, 44, 45
Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 45
Scottish and English, 43, 44
Scottish Laws, early, 32
Shakespeare, 5, 6, 50
use of dialect, 100
Sheffield dialect, 121, 122
Shoreham, Wm. of, 58
quoted, 59
Shropshire dialect, 127-128
Skeat, _Chaucer Canon_, 73
_Etymological Dictionary_, 84-85
_Gospels in Anglo-Saxon_, 71
Index to _Icelandic Dictionary_, 89
_Primer of English Etymology_, 84
_Principles of English Etymology_, 70, 87, 89
Skinner, S., _Etymologicon_, 100
Smith, G. Gregory, _Specimens of Middle Scots_, 44, 45
_South English Legendary_, 51
Southern dialect, 47-55
Southey, R., his use of dialect, 111
_Specimens of Early English_
Part I., 49, 50
Part II., 51, 79.
_See_ Morris
Spenser's _Shepherd's Calendar_, 99
Stephens, Prof., 18
Sussex dialect, 130-132
Sweet, Dr, 15
_Anglo-Saxon Primer_, 48
_Anglo-Saxon Reader_, 18
_Anglo-Saxon Reader, Dialectal_, 56-57
_Oldest English Texts_, 10, 15, 19, 66
Gregory's _Pastoral Care_, 7

Tannahill, Robert, 45
Tennyson, 4, 111
_Testament of Love_, 53, 54
Trevisa, John, 53, 55
Tusser, T., _Pointes of Husbandrie_, 99
Twenty, 3

Usk, Thomas, 53, 54

Vernon MS., 52
_Vespasian Psalter_, 69, 70

Wessex
_see_ Anglo-Saxon
Westmoreland dialect, 117, 118
William of Palerne, 80
Wiltshire dialect, 128-129
Wise, J.R., 5
Wright, Dr J., _English Dialect Dictionary_, 9, 85, 90, 104
Wright, T., _Political Songs_, 29
Wyntoun, 29, 33

Yon, 6, 7

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{Transcriber's Correction:

Chapter III:
courageous before all men; I (the cross) durst not bow down
_text reads_ ... bow dow }

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