It extends to 9624 lines, and was edited by Dr Morris for the Philological Society in 1863.
The Preface to this edition is of especial value, as it carefully describes the characteristics of Northumbrian, and practically laid the foundation of our knowledge of the old dialects as exhibited in MSS.

Lists are given of orthographical differences between the Northern dialect and others, and an analysis is added giving the grammatical details which determine its Northern character.

Much of this information is repeated in the Introduction to the _Specimens of English_, Part II, pp.

xviii-xxxviii.
XI.

_The Poems of Laurence Minot_ belong to the middle of the fourteenth century.