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192 particular as to drawing on French or English; thus, lequel is translated literally. The yn as moche is re&shy;markable as a sister form to the Gloucestershire foras&shy;much; many such forms were to crop up in the Four&shy;teenth Century and to remain in use till about the Re&shy;storation. When new phrases come into a language, it is in adverbial forms and in conjunctions that they are mostly found; thus only and rather are in the Thirteenth Century used, not merely as adjectives, but in a new sense. The Handlyng Synne should be compared with another poem due to the same shire, and written five hundred and sixty years later; I mean Mr. Tennyson's Northern Farmer. Some of the old forms are there repeated, especially the a which stands first in the fol&shy;lowing rimes:

He ys wurþy to be shent, For a doþ a&#x0293;ens þys comaundment. — Page 84. Yole, ys yone þy page? — Page 184. A gode man and a ry&#x0293;t stedefaste. — Page 74. A man yn fiesshe as he dyde se. — Page 391. Beþ wakyng. . . . What tyme þat &#x0293;oure lorde wyl kalle. — Page 137. Crystendom. . . . >Þurghe þe whych we are savede alle. — Page 294.