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Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they
are listed at the end of the text.

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In this text [*e] represents the "schwa" or unvoiced vowel, printed as
inverted-e, and [gh] represents the Middle English letter "yogh", similar
to the numeral 3. [=a] signifies "a macron"; [)u] "u breve"; [o,] "o with
Ogonek"; and so forth. aesc, eth and thorn are expanded to ae, dh and