ii.
"Sitteth alle stille, and herkneth to me; The kyng of Almaigne, bi mi leaute, Thritti thousent pound askede he For te make the pees in the countre, Ant so he dude more.
Richard, thah thou be ever trichard, Trichten shalt thou never more." 53.

In the following examples, I substitute Roman letters for the Saxon.

At this period, we find the characters mixed.

The style here is that which Johnson calls "a kind of intermediate diction, neither Saxon nor English." Of these historical rhymes, by _Robert of Gloucester_, the Doctor gives us more than two hundred lines; but he dates them no further than to say, that the author "is placed by the criticks in the thirteenth century."-- _Hist.

of Eng.