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English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

CHAPTER IV
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69-82) corresponds to lines 11373-11796.
VIII.

_Sunday Homilies in Verse_; about 1330.

The extracts are taken from _English Metrical Homilies_, edited by J.Small (Edinburgh, 1862) from a MS.

in Edinburgh.

The Northern dialect is well marked, but I do not know to what locality to assign it.
X.Richard Rolle, of Hampole, near Doncaster, wrote a poem called _The Prick of Conscience_, about 1340.


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