Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner.
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- Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner.
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- New Haven,: Yale university press; [etc., etc.]
- 1920.
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"Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ACS0188.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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Notes
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and here, as generally, represented by & in MS.
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MS., M. forering; M. note forbering (?); Th. (p. 44), B. forþering.
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MS., wt which M. here, as always, expands with, I have expanded wyth, since this is the spelling in over two-thirds of the cases where the scribe writes it out: MS. r. .hen with second and third letters blurred, though c is partly legible.
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MS. (but see Introd., p. x); M. boþe.
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corte, M. here, as always, expands courte (but see Introd., p. x, n. 3).
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clannesse, the scribe has corrected the first s from ȝ.
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MS., M. bone; Sch,?lovly.
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M. anwhere (MS. might be either n or u; M. note aywhere(?); Fi. awhere, B. anwhere: abowte, the last three letters are blurred and barely legible, like the last few letters of most of ll. 26-36.
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M. burne; M. 2 is mistaken in noting that MS. looks like burre, since the fourth letter resembles rather the top of a y.
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MS. harlateȝ, though second a blurred; M. harloteȝ.
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MS. dukeȝ; M. dukes.
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MS. trascheȝ; M. trasches.
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MS., M. worþlych; M. 2 note worldlych (?).
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MS., M. in her euen; M. 2 note her-in(?); so Fi.
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B. to-com.
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MS. partrykeȝ; M. partrykes.
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MS., M. he; Fi. þay.
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MS. tne; M. t[ur]ne.
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MS., M. sower; M. note swer(?); Fi. (p. 47) so werp; B. so werned.
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MS. plate, as M. notes.
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metten, n corrected by scribe from ȝ.
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MS., M. forlotez; M. note forletez(?).
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may, scribe apparently first wrote ia and corrected to m: MS. halkeȝ; M. halkes: MS., M. by; Fi. be.
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MS., M. 1 þaȝ þaȝ; M. 2 þaȝ.
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MS. þat demed; M. þat [is]; Fi. þat [he].
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bilooghe, see Introd., p. x, n. 2.
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MS., M. soerly; M. note soberly(?); E. serly.
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compaynye, scribe corrected second y from i.