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Homilies in Verse.
Prick of Conscience.
Minot's Poems.
Barbour's Bruce; with an extract.
Great extent of the Old Northern dialect; from Aberdeen to the Humber. Lowland Scotch identical with the Yorkshire dialect of Hampole. Lowland Scotch called "Inglis" by Barbour, Henry the Minstrel, Dunbar, and Lyndesay; first called "Scottis" by G.Douglas. Dr Murray's account of the Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland. V.NORTHUMBRIAN IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
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