London, 1861.
INDEX Aberdeen dialect, 112, 113 Adam's body, materials of, 21, 22 Alfred, King, 47, 48 Allen, Grant, _Anglo-Saxon Britain_, 85 _Alliterative Poems_, ed.

Morris, 80 _Altenglische Dichtungen_, 52 Ambry, aumbry, 97 _Ancren Riwle_, 49 Anglian period, 14 Anglo-French words in dialects, 94-96 Anglo-Saxon, 10, 11, 12 _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, 12, 48 Laud MS., 73 Arain, arles, arris, asew, assith, 97 Assoilyie, astre, aunsel, aunter, aver, averous, 97, 98 Atkinson's (Cleveland) Glossary, 44 Awfully, 4 _Ayenbite of Inwyt_, 59, 60 Ayrshire dialect, 113, 114 Baker, Miss, 5 Barnes, William, 55, 111 Beda, 15 his "death-song," 15 his _History_, 14, 15, 17, 56 Beowulf, 7-9 Bewcastle column, 20 Bladud, King, 50, 51 Blood-boltered, 5 Bolter, 5, 6 Boucher, Rev.J., Dialect Dictionary, 101, 102 Boy or child, 5 Brockett's Glossary, 44 _Bruce_, by Barbour, 29-34 Brut, romance of, 49, 50, 51 Burns, Robert, 45, 113 C{ae}dmon, 15, 16 his hymn, 17 Caxton, 40 Celtic words in dialects, 83-86 list of, 85, 86 Charters, Kentish, 56, 57 Mercian, 70 Chaucer, use of Kentish by, 63 use of _yon_, 7 use of _asp_, 68 Cheshire dialect, 122, 123 Child (girl), 5, 6 Cole, King, 51 Corpus Glossary, 67 _Cursor Mundi_, 27, 28, 35 _Cymbeline_, 50 Dialect defined, 1 Dialect glossaries, 102-103 Dialect writers, 111 Dialects, foreign elements in the, 82-98 four old, 10,11 groups of, 107 modern, 106-109 specimens of, 110, etc.
Dialectic regeneration, 3 Dictionaries by Coles, Kersey, Bailey, Dr Johnson, and Ash, 101 old, Promptorium and Catholicon, 100 Douglas, Gawain, 34 Dunbar, 33, 35 quoted, 45 Dunstan, St, Life of, 51 Durham, _Liber Vit{ae}_, 20 Ritual, 21 Eagre, 97 Earle, Prof., 14 Edinburgh dialect, 115, 116 Eliot _see_ George Ellis, A.J., _Early English Pronunciation_, 103 Erne, 6 English, the old name for Lowland Scotch, 33-35 _English Dialect Dictionary_, 85, 90, 104 _English Dialect Grammar_, 104 English Dialect Society, 103 _English Metrical Homilies_, 28 Essex dialect, 123, 124, 125 Fitzherbert, J., _Boke of Husbandry_, 99 Flittermouse, 4, 5 _Flower and the Leaf_, 38 French words in dialects, 93 list of, 96-98 Galt, John, 45 Gauntree, 95 _Gawayne and the Grene Knight_, 81 George Eliot, use of dialect by, 111 Gloss, meaning of, 23 Glossaries of dialectal words, 102, 103 Old English, 66, 67 _Golden Targe_, by Dunbar, 45 Gower, use of Kentish by, 62, 63 Greek words in dialects, 87 Grose, F., _Provincial Glossary_, 101 Hampole, R.Rolle of, 28, 32, 35 _Handlyng Synne_, quoted, 78, 79 Harleian MS.

2253, 52 Hebrew words in dialects, 88 Henry III., Proclamation of, 75-78 Henry the Minstrel, 33, 35 Higden, Ralph, 53 Hild, Abbess, 16 Hoccleve, 38 Hogg, James, 45 _Homilies in Verse_, 28 _Horn, romance of_, 50 Horstmann, Dr, 51 Hrinde (A.S.), 8, 9 Inglis, or Inglisch, 33-35 Isle of Wight dialect, 129, 130 Jamieson's Dictionary, 43, 44 Jonson, Ben, 5 Juliana, St, 49 Jutes, 56 Keats, 4 Kentish, 10, 11, 12 dialect, 56-64 glosses, 57 sermons, 58 Kentish _e_ (A.S.

_y_), 61-64 _King Lear_, 50 Lancashire dialect, 119, 120 Latin words in dialects, 87 Layamon's _Brut_, 49 Leyden Riddle, 18 _Liber Vit{ae}_, 20 Lincolnshire dialect, 118, 119 words, 100, 101 _Locrine_, 50 London dialect, 74-78 Lorica Prayer, 68, 69 Lydgate, 38 Lyndesay, Sir David, 34, 35 Madam, 'm, 3 Malory, Sir Thomas, 40 Manning, Robert, 78, 79 Mercian dialect, 10, 11, 36, 37, 65-81 glosses, 70-72 spellings, 71-72 Michel, Dan, 59, 60 Midland dialect, 65-81 rise of, 37, 42 _Psalter_, 80 East, 65-79 West, 79-81 Minot's Poems, 29 _Moral Ode_, 49 Morris, Dr, _Blickling Homilies_, 8 _Old English Miscellany_, 49, 58 _Old English Homilies_, 49 _Specimens of Early English_, 58 Morris, Dr, on dialects, 81 Morris and Skeat, _Specimens_, etc., 27-29, 59, 60 Murray, Dr, on the Dialect of Scotland, 28, 32-5 Mueller, Prof.Max, _Lectures_, 3 _New English Dictionary_, 85 Norfolk dialect, 125-127 Northern dialect, great extent of, 32-35 Northumbrian, 10, 11, 12, 14-46 glosses, 22-24 riddle, 18 _Nut-brown Maid_, 38 _Old English Homilies_, 49 _Ormulum, The_, 73, 74 _Owl and Nightingale_, 49 Peacock's (Lincolnshire) Glossary, 44 _Pearl, The_, 80 Phonetic decay, 3 Plays, early, 41 Plurals, Southern, 61 _Prick of Conscience_, 28 _Proverbs of Alfred_, 49 Psalter, by Hampole, 32 Prose Treatises, by the same, 32 Psalter, Northumbrian, 25-27 West Midland, 80 Ramsay, Allan, 45 Ray, John, collection of dialectal words, 101 Rimy, 8, 9 rind, 9 Robert of Gloucester, 50 Rolle, of Hampole, 28, 32, 35 Romances, dialect of, 44 list of, 38-40 Ross, Alexander, 45 Rushworth MS., 22, 23, 70-72 Ruthwell Cross, 18, 19, 20 Scandinavian words in dialects, 88-93 list of, 90-93 Scots, Middle, 44, 45 Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 45 Scottish and English, 43, 44 Scottish Laws, early, 32 Shakespeare, 5, 6, 50 use of dialect, 100 Sheffield dialect, 121, 122 Shoreham, Wm.

of, 58 quoted, 59 Shropshire dialect, 127-128 Skeat, _Chaucer Canon_, 73 _Etymological Dictionary_, 84-85 _Gospels in Anglo-Saxon_, 71 Index to _Icelandic Dictionary_, 89 _Primer of English Etymology_, 84 _Principles of English Etymology_, 70, 87, 89 Skinner, S., _Etymologicon_, 100 Smith, G.Gregory, _Specimens of Middle Scots_, 44, 45 _South English Legendary_, 51 Southern dialect, 47-55 Southey, R., his use of dialect, 111 _Specimens of Early English_ Part I., 49, 50 Part II., 51, 79.
_See_ Morris Spenser's _Shepherd's Calendar_, 99 Stephens, Prof., 18 Sussex dialect, 130-132 Sweet, Dr, 15 _Anglo-Saxon Primer_, 48 _Anglo-Saxon Reader_, 18 _Anglo-Saxon Reader, Dialectal_, 56-57 _Oldest English Texts_, 10, 15, 19, 66 Gregory's _Pastoral Care_, 7 Tannahill, Robert, 45 Tennyson, 4, 111 _Testament of Love_, 53, 54 Trevisa, John, 53, 55 Tusser, T., _Pointes of Husbandrie_, 99 Twenty, 3 Usk, Thomas, 53, 54 Vernon MS., 52 _Vespasian Psalter_, 69, 70 Wessex _see_ Anglo-Saxon Westmoreland dialect, 117, 118 William of Palerne, 80 Wiltshire dialect, 128-129 Wise, J.R., 5 Wright, Dr J., _English Dialect Dictionary_, 9, 85, 90, 104 Wright, T., _Political Songs_, 29 Wyntoun, 29, 33 Yon, 6, 7 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {Transcriber's Correction: Chapter III: courageous before all men; I (the cross) durst not bow down _text reads_ ...