Specimens of Early English, Vol. 1 With Introductions, Notes and Glossorial Index; From 'old English Homilies' to 'king Horn' A. D. 1150 A. D. 1300 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Specimens of Early English, Vol. 1: With Introductions, Notes and Glossorial Index; From 'Old English Homilies' to 'King Horn' A. D. 1150 A. D. 1300
A few words of explanatory are necessary to explain how this volume came to take its present shape, and why this Preface is not written by the author.
In 1867 a volume was published in the Clarendon Press Series with the title - 'Specimens of Early English, selected from the chief English Authors, A.D. 1250-A.D. 1400, with Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and Glossary, by R. Morris, Esq.' This book soon ran out of print, and it was decided, several years ago, not to re-issue it in its first form, but to replace it by two volumes, or 'parts, ' which should be still better calculated to meet the wants of the increasing class of students who care to have some accurate knowledge about our early literature and the gradual formation of our language. The weakest point of the work, in its first form, was that the literature of the thirteenth century was but imperfectly represented, whilst that of the twelfth century was not represented at all.
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