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PREFACE.
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from the editions of the Early English Text or Philological Society, or of such conscientious editors as Dr. David Laing, and in most other cases from the original MSS. or editions. Only in cases of importance are references to the actual passages given; where the point in question was the ordinary usage to be found on every page of a work, it seemed unnecessary to give reference to page and line.
James A. H. Murray.
Mill Hill, Middlesex, N.W.,
March, 1873.
