Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt, or Remorse of Conscience In the Kentish Dialect, 1340 A. D.; Edited from the Autograph Ms. In the British Museum, With an Introduction on the Peculiarities of the Southern Dialect, and a Glossarial Index (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt, or Remorse of Conscience: In the Kentish Dialect, 1340 A. D.; Edited From the Autograph Ms. In the British Museum, With an Introduction on the Peculiarities of the Southern Dialect, and a Glossarial Index

This appears to be the only mode of obtaining a clear conception of the great and distinctive features of these two extensive forms of our ancient Speech, and it is, perhaps, the best means we could adopt to enable us to draw, as closely as possible, the line of demarcation between the dialects formerly Spoken in the North and South of this country.

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