My best thanks are also due to the Rev. J. Eastwood, the Rev. W. H. Herford, to my colleague Mr F. J. Furnivall, and to Messrs M’Ewan and Harrison, for their valuable assistance in the formation of separate indexes to several of the works comprised in this Glossary. Their respective shares in the work are pointed out in the List of Books and Editions, which will be found in page v.

And I cannot terminate this brief preface without expressing my deep sense of the obligations I am under to Sir F. Madden, not merely for the help of his invaluable editions of Laȝamon and Havelok, without which this work would have been far less complete than it now is, but also for much kind personal advice and assistance, which probably few, if any, living philologists beside himself would have been competent to bestow. It only remains for me to add that, although no pains have been spared to render the book as complete as possible, I cannot but expect that some omissions and errors will be discovered, more especially as the largest and most laborious portion of the work was carried on during a long period of ill health. I shall feel very grateful to those who discover any addenda, if they will kindly communicate them to me for insertion hereafter in the Dictionary itself.

A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language — Part 2

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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language — Part 2

⁂ All the following pieces are cited by the number of the verse, except where the contrary is expressly mentioned.

A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language — Part 2

_Havelok the Dane._ Edited by Sir F. Madden, for the Roxburgh Club. (By Mr H. Coleridge.)

_Geste of Kyng Horn._ Edited by M. Michel, for the Bannatyne Club. (By Mr H. Coleridge.)

(N.B. The text of this poem in the second vol. of Ritson’s Metrical Romances is taken from a later MS., and differs considerably from the Bannatyne text.)

_Kyng Alysaunder._ In Weber’s Metrical Romances, vol. I. (By Mr H. Coleridge.)

_The Land of Cokaygne._ In Hickes’s Thesaurus, vol. I. p. 231. (By Mr Furnivall.)

_The Life of St Margaret_ (cited by stanzas), } in Hickes’s Thesaurus, vol. I. pp. 224, 233. _Metrical Version of the Athanasian Creed_, } (By Mr Furnivall.)

_The Owl and Nightingale._ Edited by Mr Wright for the Percy Society. (By Mr Furnivall and Mr H. Coleridge.)

_Fragment on Popular Science_, from the Early English Metrical Lives of Saints, in Mr Wright’s ‘Popular Treatises on Science.’ (By Mr H. Coleridge.)