#Dialect#: Yorkshire.
#Inflexions#:
VERB: pres. ind. 2 sg. _þou royis_ 99, _þou is_ 360; beside _þou
hast_ 69.
3 sg. _bidis_ 23, _comes_ 57.
1 pl. _we here_ 169.
2 pl. _ȝe haue_ 124.
3 pl. _þei make_ 103, _þei crie_ 107, _dwelle_
(rime) 102 ; beside _musteres_ 104, _sais_
108.
imper. pl. _harkens_ 37, _beholdes_ 195; but _vndo_ 182.
pres. p. _walkand_ 53 (in rime); beside _shynyng_ 94.
strong pp. _stoken_ 193, _brokynne_ 195, &c.
Contracted verbal forms are _mase_ pres. 3 pl. (in rime)
116, _bus_ pres. 2 sg. 338, _tane_ pp. 172.
PRONOUN 3 PERS.: pl. nom. _þei_ 21; poss. _thare_ 18, _þer_ 20;
obj. _þame_ 9; but _hemselue_ 307.
The demonstrative _þer_ 'these' 97, 399, is Northern.
#Sounds#: _ā_ remains in rimes: _are_: _care_ 345-7, _waa_: _gloria_
406-8, _lawe_: _knawe_ 313-15, _moste_ (for _māste_): _taste_ 358-60;
but _ō̮_ is also proved for the original in _restore_: _euermore_:
_were_ (for _wǭre_): _before_ 13 ff.
#Spelling#: In _fois_ (= _fǭs_) 30, the spelling with _i_ indicates
vowel length.
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