Author Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt:...me his MS. for so many months, and for his hospitality when I went to his house to fetch it; also to Dr. G. F. Warner and Mr. J. A. Herbert for help with puzzles in the MS., to Mr. Henry Jenner for his note on 'abar" p. xxxiv, to my friend Dr. Henry Bradley for aid in the Glossary, to Professors J. M. Manly and Alois Brandl for their texts of Mankind, and to Mr. Pollard for his valuable aid and constant kindness. 3 St. George's Square, Ar. IV., IS March 1905. In what is said about the dialect of the Plays on p. xxxv, I mean only that the occurrence of the Northern xall and xidde in 'Mankind' and 'Wisdom' is a sign--one among others--of their being EastMidland, for I don't know them further South, and that the prevalence of the non-guttural gh is specially noticeable in Capgrave's and other Norfolk writings, tho' I believe many other Midland and Southern counties gave up the guttural early in the 15th century, and probably before. THE ACTOHS IN THE PLAY, in the order of their on-coming. Mtrcy, p. 1, 27. I Nought, p. 4, 16, 29. I Now-a-days, p. 4, 16. Myxheff, p. 2, 10, 28. Nsw-gyse, p. 4,16, 28. Mankytule, p. 7, 22. Titivillus, p. 17, 18. SCENE I. (1) Mercy. The very fownder & begynner of owwr fyrst3 creacion, umy. A-monge ws synfuH wrechys he oweth to be magnyfyede, magnify God pat for owwr dysobedyence he hade non) indygnactotd owll KVrorts To sonde hys own) son) to be torn) & crucyfyede. 4 Owot obaequyouse seruyce / to hym) xulde be aplyede where ho was lorde of aH / & made aH thynge of nought, For fe synfuH synner1, to hade4 hym) revyuyde, And,5 for hys rodempeyon), sett hys own) son) at nought. 8 (2) Jjat may be seyde & veryfyede: mankynde was dere bought; By fe pytuese deth of Jhesu he hade hys romedye; and Mv«i Us. He was pwr...