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SEMI-SAXON. The Departing Soul's Address to the Body, a Fragment of a 

 Semi-Saxon Poem, discovered amoung the Archives of Worcester Cathedral, by Sir 

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DICTIONARY OF ARCHAIC AND PROVINCIAL WORDS, 

 Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Reign of Edward I. 

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 of 1000 pages, closely printed in double columns, cloth, a new and cheaper edition. 1. Is. 

 It contains above 50,000 words (embodying all the are not to be found in ordinary Dictionaries and books 

 known scattered glossaries of the English language), of reference. Most of the principal Archaisms are il- 

 forming a complete key for the reader of our old Poets, lustrated by examples selected from early inedited 

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ESSAYS ON THE LITERATURE, POPULAR SUPERSTI- 

 TIONS, and History of England in the Middle Ages. By THOMAS WEIGHT, M.A., 

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Contents. Essay I. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. II. Anglo- Rush, and the Frolicsome Elves. XI. On Dunlop'a 

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 the Twelfth Century. VI. Abelard and the Scholastic XV. The Story of Eustace the Monk. XVI. The His- 

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IX. On the Popular Superstitions of Modern Greece, Ireland by the Anglo-Normans. XIX. On Old English 

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EARLY HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND. 

 Illustrated by an English Poem of the XTVth Century, with Notes. By J. O. 

 HALLIWELI,, Post 8vo, SECOND EDITION, with a facsimile of the original MS. in the 

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^TORRENT OF PORTUGAL; an English Metrical Romance, now first pub- 

 -*- lished, from an unique MS. of the XVth Century, preserved in the Chetham Library 

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TT ARROWING OF HELL; a Miracle Play, written in the Beign of Edward 

 -*-'- II, now first published from the Original in the British Museum, with a Modem 

 Beading, Introduction, and Notes. By JAMES OBCHABD HAILIWEBI, Esq., F.B.S., F.S. A., 

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This curious piece is supposed to be the earliest glish Poetry ; Sharon Turner's England ; Co/Jier's 

 specimen of dramatic composition in the English Ian- History of English Dramatic Poetry, Vol. II, p. 213. 

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 Strutt's Manners and Customs, Vol. II ; Warton's En- 



POETIC A; Select Pieces of Old English Popular Poetry, illustrating the 

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Contents : Colyn Blowbol's Testament ; the De- Lobe, Henry VHIth's Fool ; Romance of Robert of 

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 his Son ; the Maid and the Magpie ; Elegy on kind 



A NECDOTA LITERARIA : a Collection of Short Poems in English, Latin, 

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