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[Footnote 15: This is doubtless a different book from Hugh Rhodes's _Booke of Nurture & Schoole of Good Manners_, p. 71, below.]

[Footnote 16: What this _Edyllys Be_ means, I have no idea, and five or six other men I have asked are in the same condition. A.S.

_aeel_ is n.o.ble, _aeeling_, a prince, a n.o.ble; that may do for _edyllys_. _Be_ may be for A B C, alphabet, elementary grammar of behaviour.]

[Footnote 17: P.S. Mr Hazlitt, iv. 366, notices two others in MS.

Ashmole 59, art. 57, and in Cotton MS. Calig. A II. fol. 13, the latter of which and Ashmole 61, are, he says, of a different translation.]

[Footnote 18: See Hazlitt, iv. 366.]

[Footnote 19: The MS. has no t.i.tle. The one printed I have made up from bits of the text.]

[Footnote 20: Still one is truly thankful for the material in these unindexed books.]

[Footnote 21: Sharon Turner's _History of England_, vol. v. pp.

496-8.]

[Footnote 22: This is the stanza quoted by Dr Reinhold Pauli in his _Bilder aus Alt-England_, c. xi. p. 349:

”Herzog von Glocester nennen sie den Fursten, Der trotz des hohen Rangs und hoher Ehren Im Herzen nahrt ein dauerndes Gel.u.s.ten Nach Allem, was die alten Bucher lehren; So glucklich gross ist hierin sein Begehren, Da.s.s tugendsam er seine Zeit verbringt Und trunkne Tragheit manniglich bezwingt.”

The reader should by all means consult this chapter, which is headed ”Herzog Humfrid von Glocester. Bruchstuck eines Furstenlebens im funfzehnten Jahrhunderte” (Humphrey Duke of Gloucester. Sketch of the life of a prince in the fifteenth century). There is an excellent English translation of this book, published by Macmillan, and ent.i.tled ”Pictures of Old England.”

--W. W. Skeat.]

COLLATIONS.

These are given as a warning to other editors either to collate in foot-notes or not at all. The present plan takes up as much room as printing a fresh text would, and gives needless trouble to every one concerned.

[Transcriber's Note:

Each of these Collations will be repeated in or after the appropriate selection.]

p. 260. _The A B C of Aristotle_, Harl. MS. 1706, fol. 94, collated by Mr Brock, omits the prologue, and begins after l. 14 with, ”Here be-gynneth{e} Arystoles A B C. made be mayster Benett.”

A, _for_ argue not _read_ Angre the B, _omit_ ne; _for_ not to large _read_ thou nat to brode D, ; _for_ not _read_ thow nat E, ; _for_ to eernesful _read_ ne curyons F, _for_ fers, famuler, freendli, _read_ Ferde, familier, frenfull{e} G, _omit_ to; _for_ & gelosie ou hate, _read_ Ne to galaunt never H, _for_ in ine _read_ off I, _for_ iettynge _read_ Iocunde; _for_ iape not to _read_ Ioye thow nat K, _omit_ to _and_ &; _for_ knaue _read_ knaves L, _for_ for to leene _read_ ne to lovyng; _for_ goodis _read_ woordys M, _for_ medelus _read_ Mellous; _for_ but as mesure wole it meeue _read_ ne to besynesse vnleffull{e} N, _for_ ne use no new iettis _read_ ne nought{e} to neffangle O, _for_ ouerwart _read_ ouertwarth{e}; _for_ & oois ou hate _read_ Ne othez to haunte Q, _for_ quarelose _read_ querelous; _for_ weel ?oure souereyns _read_ men all{e} abowte R, _omit the second_ to; _for_ not to rudeli _read_ thou nat but lyte S, _for_ ne straungeli to stare _read_ Ne starte nat abowte T, _for_ for temperaunce is best _read_ But temp{er}ate euer{e} V, _for_ ne &c. _read_ ne violent Ne waste nat to moche W, _for_ neier &c. _read_ Ne to wyse deme the

-- _for_ is euere e beste of _read_ ys best for vs

_Add_ =X Y Z= x y wych{e} esed & p{er} se.

Tytell{e} Tytell{e} Tytell{e} than Esta Amen.

p. 265, _The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke_, with part of the Advocates Library MS., fol. 84, back (collated by Mr David Laing).

l. 1, _for_ children _read_ childur l. 2, _dele_ at l. 3 _dele_ For l. 6, _for_ with mary, _read_ oure Lady l. 7, _for_ arn _read_ byn l. 9, _prefix_ Forst _to_ Loke and _for_ wa.s.she _read_ wa.s.shyd l. 12, _for_ tylle _read_ to l. 13, _prefix_ And _to_ Loke l. 14, _is_, To he y^t reweleth y^e howse y^e bytt l. 16, _put the_ that _between_ loke _and_ on l. 17, _for_ without any faylys _read_ withowtte fayle l. 18, _for_ hungery aylys _read_ empty ayle l. 20, _for_ ete esely _read_ etett eysely p. 267, l. 25, _for_ mosselle _read_ morsselle l. 26, _for_ in _read_ owt of l. 30, _for_ Into thy _read_ nor in the _for_ thy salte _read_ hit l. 31, _for_ fayre on i _read_ on a l. 32, _for_ The byfore _read_ Byfore the _and dele_ yne ll. 33-4, _are_ Pyke not y^i tethe wyth y^i knyfe Whyles y^u etyst be y^i lyfe

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