table of 183 strong verbs given at pp. lxix-lxxxi of the Preface to Part I of the Specimens of English (2nd edition); see, in particular, the alphabetical index to the same, at pp. lxxxi, lxxxii.  The same Preface further contains some account of the three principal Middle-English dialects (p. xl), and Outlines of the Grammar (p. xlv).  It also explains the meaning of the symbols A3/4, A deg. (both used for th), 3* (used for y initially, gh medially, and gh or z finally), with other necessary information.

THE CLARENDON PRESS GLOSSARIES.

This work gives all the words and every form contained in the glossaries to eleven publications in the Clarendon Press Series, as below:—­

S.—­SPECIMENS OF EARLY ENGLISH, ed.  Morris, Part I:  from A.D. 1150 to A. D. 1300.

This book contains extracts from:—­1.  Old English Homilies, ed.  Morris, E. E. T. S. 1867-8, pp. 230-241; 2.  The Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 1137, 1138,1140, 1154; 3.  Old Eng.  Homilies, ed.  Morris, First Series, pp. 40-53; 4.  The same, Second Series, pp. 89-109; 5.  The Ormulum, ed.  White, ll. 962-1719, pp. 31-57; 6.  Layamon’s Brut, ed.  Madden, ll. 13785-14387 [add 13784 to the number of the line in the reference]; 7.  Sawles Warde, from Old Eng.  Homilies, ed.  Morris, First Series, pp. 245-249, 259-267; 8.  St. Juliana, ed.  Cockayne and Brock; 9.  The Ancren Riwle, ed.  Morton, pp. 208-216, 416-430; 10.  The Wooing of our Lord, from Old Eng.  Homilies, ed.  Morris, First Series, pp. 277-283; 11.  A Good Orison of our Lady, from the same, pp. 191-199; 12.  A Bestiary, the Lion, Eagle, and Ant, from An Old Eng.  Miscellany, ed.  Morris; 13.  Old Kentish Sermons, from the same, pp. 26-36; 14.  Proverbs of Alfred, from the same, pp. 102-130; 15.  Version of Genesis and Exodus, ed.  Morris, ll.1907-2536; 16.  Owl and Nightingale, from An Old Eng.  Miscellany, ed.  Morris, ll. 1-94,139-232, 253-282, 3O3-352, 391-446, 549-555, 598-623, 659-750, 837-855, 905-920, 1635-1682, 1699-1794; 17.  A Moral Ode (two copies), from An Old Eng.  Miscellany and Old Eng.  Homilies, 2nd Series, ed.  Morris; 18.  Havelok the Dane, ed.  Skeat, ll. 339-748; 19.  King Horn (in full).

S2.—­SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH, Part II, ed.  Morris and Skeat; from A.D. 1298-1393.

This book contains extracts from:—­1.  Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle (William the Conqueror and St. Dunstan); 2.  Metrical Psalter, Psalms 8, 14(15), 17(18), 23(24), 102(103), 103(104); 3.  The Proverbs of Hendyng; 4.  Specimens of Lyric Poetry, ed.  Wright (Alysoun, Plea for Pity, Parable of the Labourers, Spring-time); 5.  Robert Mannyng’s Handlynge Synne, ll. 5575-5946; 6.  William of Shoreham, De Baptismo; 7.  Cursor Mundi, ed.  Morris, ll. 11373-11791 [add 11372