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  Torrent of Portyngale.


  Early English Text Society.
  Extra Series, No. LI.
  1887.




  Berlin:       Asher & Co., 5, Unter Den Linden.
  New York:     C. Scribner & Co.; Leypoldt & Holt.
  Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.




  TORRENT OF PORTYNGALE.


  Re-Edited

  From the Unique MS. in the Chetham Library, Manchester,

  by

  E. ADAM, Ph.D.


  London:
  Publisht for the Early English Text Society
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  MDCCCLXXXVII.




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INTRODUCTION.

  ASec. 1. _The MS. and HalliwellaEuro(TM)s edition_, p.A v.

  ASec. 2. _Metre and Versification_, p. vi.

  ASec. 3. _Dialect_, p. x;
    _short vowels_, p. xi;
    _long vowels_, p.A xii;
    _inflexions_, p.A xiii.

  ASec. 4. a. _The contents of the Romance_, p. xvi;
    b. _its character_, p.A