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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 |
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 |
