We pass on from Manning to Chaucer, from Chaucer to Lydgate and Caxton, and from Caxton to Lord Surrey and Sackville and Spenser, without any real change in the actual dialect employed, but only in the form of it.
II.

WEST MIDLAND We have seen that there are two divisions of the Mercian dialect, into East and West Midland.
The West Midland does not greatly differ from the East Midland, but it approaches more nearly, in some respects, to the Northumbrian.

The greatest distinction seems to be in the present and past participles of verbs.

In the West Midland, the present participle frequently ends in _-and_, as in Northumbrian, especially in the Northern part of the Midland area.

The East Midland usually employs _-ende_ or _-inge_ instead.