Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century   By: Richard Morris (1833-1894)

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Early English

Alliterative Poems

in the

West Midland Dialect

of the

Fourteenth Century

Edited From The Unique Manuscript British Museum MS. Cotton Nero A. x

by

Richard Morris

Published for THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY by the OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS London New York Toronto

First Published 1864 Second Edition 1869 Reprinted (1869 Version) 1965

Original Series, No. 1

Originally Printed by Stephen Austin, Hertford and now Reprinted Lithographically in Great Britain at the University Press, Oxford by Vivian Ridler, Printer to the University

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