CHAPTER IV.
THE DIALECTS OF NORTHUMBRIA; A.D.

1300-1400 A little before 1300, we come to a _Metrical English Psalter_, published by the Surtees Society in 1843-7.

The language is supposed to represent the speech of Yorkshire.

It is translated (rather closely) from the Latin Vulgate version.

I give a specimen from Psalm xviii, 14-20.
14.