. The boke of Saint Albans. Falconry; Hunting; Heraldry; Incunabula. CHAPTER IV. Pi) HERE is a ftrongly marked individuality in the fpelling throughout all the treatifes in this work. If the Hunting rhymes belong to Dam Julyans, their ortho- graphy, like the profe portions, is that of the School- mafter, who appears to have been a North-countryman, many words leading to that conclufion. The formation of the plural by adding the letters " is " or " ys " ftrikes the attention at once. Thus the plural of bells is bellis; egg, eggis ; vetch, fetchis ; fulmert, ful- mer
. The boke of Saint Albans. Falconry; Hunting; Heraldry; Incunabula. CHAPTER IV. Pi) HERE is a ftrongly marked individuality in the fpelling throughout all the treatifes in this work. If the Hunting rhymes belong to Dam Julyans, their ortho- graphy, like the profe portions, is that of the School- mafter, who appears to have been a North-countryman, many words leading to that conclufion. The formation of the plural by adding the letters " is " or " ys " ftrikes the attention at once. Thus the plural of bells is bellis; egg, eggis ; vetch, fetchis ; fulmert, ful- mertis; hawk, hawkys; herd, herdys ; person, personys, and so on. The change of a ^ at the end of a word to an i is common, as onli, fofteli, unthrefti; and for if; algate; awth for all the ; bowke; chylder ; clepit; clees ; knaw ; ken ; yowre ; and many others are Northern. As might be expefted, many Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman words now obfolete are found, fuch as benymme, blynne, byzete, canell, clepit, colver, dagon, gobbit, kawe, kydde, liggen, merde, nafethrils, nym,* raton, and many others. The following vocabulary will fhow the chief words in which peculiarity of fpelling or dialedl are noticeable :— alfe, half and, used for " if" am, are algate, always appillis, apples a(fone, as foon * In the flang of thieves to Jleal. is to nim at this Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Berners, Juliana, b. 1388? supposed author; Blades, William, 1824-1890. London, E. Stock
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