Part 19 (1/2)

[Footnote 13: H. _foilment_.]

[Footnotes 14, 15: _in fresher ink above the line._]

[Footnote 16: MS. _isoe_.]

[Footnote 17: above the line.]

[Footnote 18: MS. _foelle_; ? _falle_.]

[Footnote 19: All words marked [19] are omitted in H.'s transcript, the MS. at this point being stained and obscure.]

[Footnote 20: Professor Robinson Ellis suggests _obiu{r}gabit_ here, which would fit the s.p.a.ce: there is room for 2-3 letters, and possibly a trace of an _r_ contraction.]

[Footnote 21: H. _urgabit_.]

[Footnote 22: obscure, H. _fuit_; MS. might be _ffinit_.]

[Footnote 23: H. _t'roe_.]

[Footnote 24: H. _neer_.]

[Footnote 25: H. _mo ert_.]

[Footnote 26: inserted in margin; H. omits.]

[Footnote 27: H. _aler_.]

[Footnote 28: H. _le_.]

[Footnote 29: H. _sayt cydaunt_.]

[Footnote 30: H. _. . . . . . eyne_.]

[Footnote 31: H. _t^{r}menti_.]

[Footnote 32: H. _ou_.]

APPENDIX II.

#B# VERSION 19.

MS. TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE R. 3. 21. [fol. 33, v^o.]

(This text represents the normal seven-stanza type of the B version, but without precise verbal agreement with any text printed above.)

[Transcriber's Note: The initial ”E” is printed in the middle of a large blank s.p.a.ce, E.E.T.S. notation for a decorative capital.]

1 [E]rthe vppon erthe so wondyrly wrought, Erthe opon erthe hath gete a dignite of nought, Erthe opon erthe hath set all hys thought How erthe opon erthe may on hyght be brought. 4

2 Erthe opon erthe wold be a kyng; But how that erthe goth to erthe thynketh he nothyng.