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Contents.
A.D. page
1280. Specimen of Southern Dialect 173
The King Horn. 174
1290. Kentish Sermons 175
1300. Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle 176
His Life of Becket 177
His Life of St. Brandan 178
The Romance of Alexander 179
The New English, where compounded 180
1300. Few new Teutonic idioms since this date 181

CHAPTER III.

the rise of the new english.

A.D. 1303.

Robert of Brunne in Lincolnshire 182
1303. His Work, The Handlyng Synne 183
His dialect, partly Southern 184
Partly Western, partly Northern 185
Went, second, right, full, down 186
Kind, mind, truth, buck 187
Adder, one after an Adjective 188
Wholly, lost, to be blamed 189
Sack, toy, cannot 190
New words - St. Audre 191
Yon, what time, the which 192
Somebody, once, inasmuch 193
Would God, Lord, side by side 194
He asks pardon for his diction 195
His tale of Bishop Robert 196
His account of Charity 197
Taken from St. Paul 198
His advice about Mass 199
His tale of the Norfolk Bondeman 200
His account of himself 201
Specimens of Dialects - North Lincolnshire 202