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The Middle English Poem, Erthe Upon Erthe

Note 1 — INTRODUCTION

Reading edition

Cf. Reliquiae Antiquae, II. 216; Furnivall, Early Eng. Poems and Lives of Saints, p. 150; Heuser, Kildare-Gedichte, p. 180.

2. read upon.

3. in margin festine.

4. MS. cepiam, so Reliq. Ant.; Furn., Heuser, copiam.

5. MS. simil’, Furn. simile.

6. MS. b’riþ, Furn., Reliq. Ant. beriþ, Heuser berriþ, cf. l. 28.

7. muntiþ, in margin metitur.

8. MS. originally schynne, s erased.

9. vult, cf. Furn.

10. MS. põita, Furn., Heuser posita.

11. in margin trahunt.

12. in margin lucrataris, Heuser lucrabaris.

13. MS. humo ꝗ, Reliq. Ant., Furn. humoque, Heuser humo quod.

14. ? getith, in margin lucratur.

15. MS. uĩqȝ, Reliq. Ant., Furn. vincit, Heuser vimque.

16. MS. partratur, Furn. portratur.

17. MS. ar, Heuser a.

18. Heuser grey (lies fou and grey?).

19. Furn. est tam.

20. MS. sẽtine, Furn. sentine, Reliq. Ant. sentinæ, so reginæ, ruinæ.

21. MS. Qñ, Furn. omne.

22. in margin bildiþ.

23. Furn. H. dorna.

24. MS. qñ, Furn. quin or quando.

25. Heuser ? ilome.

26. MS. heis.A

27. MS. iudico: Reliq. Ant. judicio, Furn., Heuser iudicio.

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