barefoot up and down, threatening the flames with bisson rheum;" and again in Coriolanus, II, 1, 70: "What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be known well enough too? " After this time the word in the simple significance of "blind" (or "blinding") seems rapidly to have become obsolete. The fact that the word was as well (or better) known in the OE. and ME. dialects of northern England as in the midland or south rather weakens the force of Förster's presumption in favor of the southern origin of the piece.
9. Stinchende and riche (p. 27) are early examples of ch for c.
10. Chearte (p. 30) represents a peculiar development of the OE. cræt (= "cart"). The word generally underwent metathesis (cræt > cært > cart).[1] I have found no other example of this form of it.
I have on two separate occasions since their appearance collated the printed texts A and B with the originals, and these collations have enabled me to make several corrections, especially in version B, the MS of which is in a few places very difficult to make out. The corrections made in A are, excepting one or two typographical errors, of minor importance. But for the sake of completeness and of convenience for future reference I give hereafter the entire list of errata, including the "Corrections" from Publications, p. 542.
It would have been better to retain the pagination of the codex in version A, which would then read "P. 344," "P. 345," instead of "P. 1," "P. 2."'[2]
471, 16,[3] read leui (for levi); 19, p. 2 begins in middle of the word cwædon 32, line in MS begins with ac. 472, 26, insert asterisk after acsode. 473, 1, read þinum (for pinum); 2, æ in ænne partially erased; 14, read geeadmetlan, del. brackets, a in eall no longer legible; 16, del. leaders; 18, del. and and read cynnige; 20, read hebreiscan, del. brackets; 21, read heora ræaf; 29, cwæt is the regular MS form in cases where the word is written
