Transcriber’s Notes

Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text, and renumbered consecutively to be unique. The sole footnote reference on p. 250 was mis-numbered, and is corrected here as footnote 173.

In sections § 25-30, the subtypes of line types A, B, C, etc. are printed as A1, but in later sections these are printed as subscripts A1, with subvarieties as A1a, etc. This practice was followed here as well.

There are cases where punctuation, spelling or spacing seem questionable, particularly in quoted matter. Where possible, these have been checked against images of the sources Schipper used. Corrections made to the text are as follows:

p. 46 Beow. 499[,] 1542, 2095, 2930 Missing comma added.
p. 53 ges[c´/é]aft The accent on ‘c’ is likely a printer’s error.
p. 76 -en, -es, [-]eþ Added missing hyphen.
p. 88 J. A. 31[.] Added missing stop.
p. 100 Nou haþ prúde þe p[r´i/rí]s The accent on ‘r’ is likely misplaced.
p. 128 n 1. Chambers’s Cyclop. of Eng. Lit[.], Missing ‘.’ in abbreviation.
p. 156 in váyn: s[d/á]yen Sur. 31; Probable printer’s error.
p. 168 prayer: p[r]ayr Missing ‘r’ inserted.
p. 169 carry ’em (=carry them[)] Closing ‘)’ inserted.
p. 205 How féw to g[oó/óo]d efféct Accent should appear on first vowel.
p. 216 that búd and blóom forth[ ]bríngs Missing space inserted.
p. 224 (1550–1700),[’] Spurious apostrophe removed.