2: _bright_
3: _morn_
4: _young_
5: _pleasant_
6: _arrayed_
7: _enamelling_
8: _orators_
9: _flower_
10: _didst rise_
11: _poets_
12: _heavenly_
13: _golden_
14: _honeyed_
15: _overgilt_
16: _ere_
17: _undertook_
18: _pleasant_
19: _composition_}




CHAPTER VI

THE SOUTHERN DIALECT


We have seen that the earliest dialect to assume literary supremacy
was the Northern, and that at a very early date, namely, in the
seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries; but its early documents have