[English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. Skeat]@TWC D-Link bookEnglish Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day CHAPTER VI 12/12
in the library of St John's College, Cambridge, is given side by side with the original Latin in the edition already noticed.
It is worth adding that Caxton printed Trevisa's version, altering the spelling to suit that of his own time, and giving several variations of reading. Trevisa was also the author of some other works, of which the most important is his translation into English, from the original Latin, of _Bartholom{ae}us de Proprietatibus Rerum_. I am not aware of any important work in the Southern dialect later than these translations by Trevisa.
But in quite modern times, an excellent example of it has appeared, viz.
in the _Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect_, by William Barnes..
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