III. THE DIALECTS OF NORTHUMBRIA; TILL A.D. 1300. The Anglian period.
Beda's History and "Death-song." The poet Cædmon. Cædmon's hymn.
The Leyden Riddle. The Ruth well Cross. Liber Vitæ. The Durham
Ritual. The Lindisfarne and Rushworth MSS. Meaning of a "gloss."
Specimen.

IV. THE DIALECTS OF NORTHUMBRIA; A.D. 1300-1400. The Metrical Psalter;
with an extract. Cursor Mundi. Homilies in Verse. Prick of
Conscience. Minot's Poems. Barbour's Bruce; with an extract. Great
extent of the Old Northern dialect; from Aberdeen to the Humber.
Lowland Scotch identical with the Yorkshire dialect of Hampole.
Lowland Scotch called "Inglis" by Barbour, Henry the Minstrel,
Dunbar, and Lyndesay; first called "Scottis" by G. Douglas.
Dr Murray's account of the Dialect of the Southern Counties of
Scotland.

V. NORTHUMBRIAN IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Northumbrian of Scotland and
of England in different circumstances. Literature of the fifteenth
century; poems, romances, plays, and ballads. List of Romances.
Caxton. Rise of the Midland dialect. "Scottish" and "English."
Jamieson's Dictionary. "Middle Scots." Quotation from Dunbar.

VI. THE SOUTHERN DIALECT. Alfred the Great. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Old English Homilies. The Brut. St Juliana. The Ancren Riwle. The
Proverbs of Alfred. The Owl and the Nightingale. A Moral Ode.
Robert of Gloucester. Early history of Britain. The South-English
Legendary. The Harleian MS. 2253. The Vernon MS. John Trevisa.
The Testament of Love.

VII. THE SOUTHERN DIALECT OF KENT. Quotation from Beda. Extract from an