...Ohester Plays," printed for the Shakespeare Society, 8vo. 1843, is of opinion that these plays arc not earlier than the end of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century : and that "the traditions which carry their composition so far hack as the mayoralty of John Arneway...

...Chester Plays" printed for the Shakespeare Society, 8vo. 1843, is of opinion that these plays are not earlier than the end of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century : and that "the traditions which carry their composition so far hack as the mayoralty of John Arneway...

...to infer, hereafter, from the accounts given of the dates of other teachers, that RA'MA'NAND was not earlier than the end of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth, century. According to common tradition, the schism of RA'MA'NAND originated in resentment of an affront offered...

...thought of little consequence; and as the most rational See Bibliotheca Heberiana, part xi. p. 162. mode of arranging fabulous compositions is to place...Otuel, being contained in the Auchinleck MS., cannot be later than 1330, about which time that MS. was completed. As it is written in romauncc, And founden...

...seemed to have a fair claim to priority. Indeed, whatever may be the date of the French Fierabras,1 I think it would not be difficult to prove from internal...Otuel, being contained in the Auchinleck MS., cannot be later than 1330, ahout which time that MS. was completed. As it is written in romaunee, And founden...

...to let their hawkes flye In the church of Saint Sophy With much matter more That I kepe in store." again bring them forward, and engage them in a new...cannot be much later than 1330, about which time that MJS. was completed." In the Grenville Library in the Brit. Mus., No. 10,531, is a printed folio volume...

...translation — er hält (wol nach v. 25 ff.) 15 das gedicht für eine Übersetzung aus dem romanischen — cannot be earlier than the end of the fourteenth or beginning of the fißeenth century. Nach der obigen untersuchung über die sprache und über das end-e, das schon bei...

...century. " I think," he says in his Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, ed. Halliwell, p. 380, " it would not be difficult to prove from internal evidence,...fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century." 1 See the note. Having seen from the summary of grammatical peculiarities that there is a great similarity...

...p. 380, " it would not be difficult to prove from internal evidence, that the present translation2 cannot be earlier than the end of the fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century." ' See the note. Having seen from the summary of grammatical peculiarities that there is a great similarity...

...are identical with those current among the Turks, but many are, doubtless, of much greater antiquity than the end of the fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century, the date assigned to this famous Oriental wit. The character of these anecdotes varies greatly. In...