An Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse, with grammar, metre, notes and glossary

portionHENRY FROWDEWAREnousri:Oxford Uxiversity PressAmen Corner, EC.AVENUE.& 66 FIFTHMACMILLAN CO.,Cfarcnion ^tviie(pvteeANREADERANGLO-SAXONIN PROSE AND VERSEWITHNOTES ANDMETRE, GLOSSARYGRAMMAR,BYHENRY LL.D.Ph.D.,SWEET, M.A.,SEVENTH EDITIONENLARGED AND PARTLY RE-WRITTENAT THE CLARENDON PRESS18940;i:for5AT THE CLARENDON PRESSPRINTEDPRlNTliR lO THE UNIVERSITYBY HORACE IIAKT,URLPREFACEThe first edition of this book inappeared i876^ata time when interest in studies wasOld-Englisli beginning—to and when the two books most in use thenrevive,Analecta -Saxonica and Vernon'sThorpe's Anglo Anglo-—Saxon Guide were to become Asbeginning antiquated.it thus a it from the withsupplied pressing want, met, first,a favourable from thereception gradually increasing bodyof not in this andOld-EngUsh students, only countryon thebut also Continent. After theAmerica, appearanceEarle's Book the inof Professor for Beginner Anglo-SaxonanI then out to serve asPrimer,brought Anglo-Saxonan introduction to the which in under-Reader, consequencewent certain modifications in besidessubsequent editions,the many improvements suggested by ripened experience,the advice of and the of I haveothers, progress philology.learnt much from the other books of aalso similar character—that have late fromof sometimes theirappeared years goodsometimes to avoid what seemedby endeavouringpoints,me their mostto defects. The of these are theprominentVI PREFACE.German ...