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men of any education. The thorough-going English student must always keep his eye fixed upon Dr. March's Anglo-Saxon Grammar (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston), and upon Dr. Morris' Historical Outlines of English Accidence (Macmillan and Co.). He will, it is to be hoped, forthwith become a subscriber to the Early English Text Society. May many an Englishman begin his studies in his own tongue, mindful of Virgil's line:

'Antiquam exquirite Matrem.'

INDEX.

[English words and letters are here inserted in their most modern shape; thus
which must be looked out, in order to find hwylc. In pursuance of this plan,
I set down that a replaces æ, not that a changes to a.]

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AN

Alexander, the Romance of, 178-
180, 188, 237, 241, 242, 256
Alfred, 30, 31, 37, 38, 39, 41,
44-47, 51, 54, 68, 86, 87, 175,
215, 216, 217, 254, 259, 264,
268,293

his Proverbs, 91, 125, 126,
128, 141

Alice, Queen, 218
Alike, 129, 261
Alison, 326

Alive, 81, 126

All and some, 159
All at once, 148
All day long, 112
All one to me, 116
All to pieces, 194
Allegro, the, 311
Alliterative Poetry, 33, 34,

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Anglian, 39, 52, 59, 258, 320, 355
Anglo-Saxon, 63, 80, 369
Anhungred, 179, 290

Anne, Queen of Richard II.,
273

Anon, 88, 291, 302

Another (a corrupt form), 53, 59
Anthem, 223
Any, 57

Apology for the Lollards, 269
Architecture, 56, 180, 215, 235,
343

Ard, the Suffix, 247
Arderne, John, 234

Are, 10, 39, 49, 88, 91, 104, 115,

143, 165, 263, 278, 294, 312
Aright, 64

Ariosto, 274, 308

Arise, 96

Armada, the, 309, 317

Arnold, Dr., 327

Around, 26, 242

Arrow, 274

Art (es), 43

Artemus Ward, 332

Arthur, King, 196, 217, 237

Article, Definite, 29, 31, 57, 58,
89, 94, 113, 233

- Indefinite, 27, 28, 89

AU

Article used after many, 112
Arundel, Archbishop, 273
Aryan, 1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14,
16, 35, 51, 335, 337
As (alse), 67, 70, 73, 82, 136,

142

- standing for the Relative, 192
As far as, 179

As help me God, 275
As if, 100

As it were, 100
As much as, 118

As oft as, 118
As soon as, 185
As though, 88
As to this, 269
As well, 177, 193
Ascham, 307
Ashore, 64
Aside, 179

Ask, axe, 26, 49, 104, 264, 290
Asleep, 74

Assemble, 129, 224, 300
Assumption of the Virgin, 174
Asunder, 194

At, 3, 27, 32, 177, 302
At all, 291

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Become (fieri), 82

Bed and board, 34

Bede, 19, 35, 37, 46, 85, 217, 218,
268

Bede (prayer), 189, 287
Bedell, Bishop, 154, 310
Bedford, 45, 47, 162, 210
Been (gewesen), 70, 73
Before, 49, 98
Beforehand, 118

Beforesaid, 137

Beggar, 122
Begotten, 143

Behight, 164, 287, 301
Belief, 78, 82, 117, 175
Belike, 275

Belittle, 82
Belly, 235

Belong, 105

Below, 72, 186
Ben Jonson, 281

Benedictines, the, 304

Beowulf, the 18, 27, 28, 30, 32,

47, 79, 216

Bequest, 167

Berners, Lord, 288

Beseech, 80

Besides, 85, 119, 179

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