Early English Alliterative Poems

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Full Contents Preface The Pearl (separate file) Cleanness (separate file) Patience (separate file) Glossarial Index (separate file) Sidenotes Details of Text and Layout

Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century

EDITED FROM THE UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT BRITISH MUSEUM MS. COTTON NERO A. x

BY

RICHARD MORRIS

Published for THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY by the OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO

FIRST PUBLISHED 1864 SECOND EDITION 1869 REPRINTED (1869 VERSION) 1965

Original Series, No. 1

ORIGINALLY PRINTED BY STEPHEN AUSTIN, HERTFORD AND NOW REPRINTED LITHOGRAPHICALLY IN GREAT BRITAIN AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD BY VIVIAN RIDLER, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

Contents (added by transcriber)

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Preface v

Introduction to The Pearl [xi]

Introduction to Cleanness [xiii]

Introduction to Patience [xviii]

General Introduction [xix]

Remarks Upon the Dialect and Grammar xxi

Grammatical Details xxviii

I. Nouns xxxiii

II. Adjectives xxxiii

III. Pronouns xxx

IV. Verbs xxxiii

V. Adverbs xl

VI. Prepositions xl

VII. Conjunctions xl

Description of the Manuscript xli

Contractions Used in the Glossary xliv

The Pearl (separate file) 1

Notes to The Pearl 105

Cleanness (separate file) 37

Notes to Cleanness [108]

Patience (separate file) 89

Notes to Patience [115]

Glossarial Index (separate file) 117

Collected Sidenotes (section added by transcriber)