with O.E. soppian. Like for-sepe in the same line, it must be used intransitively, and the signification would seem to be 'to get soaked through, or soppy' ("as when mown grass lies in lumps upon the field," Halliwell),—a bold metaphor, but not more so than for-sepe In deapes bende. We may, however, mention here that in the Bodleian Fragm. of 'Sir Lamwell,' v. 57, we meet with the phrase forsobbed and forworn, where forsobbed seems to mean 'exhausted with sobbing.' So, if we were to alter forsopie, we might perhaps write for-sobbie instead of it.

158/836. ouer-prowe, overthrown. The MS. has oue preawe, which might seem to point to original -þrawe. aw invariably represents O.E. aw in 'Ayenbite;' but Shoreham has ow- forms as well, as proved by his rymes.

158/847. by pan by-fore, by what has been said before.

159/862. The insertion of hap after hyt, as suggested by Kölbing, is impossible. come, 1. 863, is evidently 3rd sing. ind. pret., phonetically com; so nome cannot be pa. pple. (=nume), but must likewise be 3rd sing. ind. pret. (= nōm).

159/865. I have thought it necessary to supply hyt, which refers to hyt (i. e. the child), l. 863.

What the poet means to say here is this: 'Man is God's likeness ("Faciamus hominen ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram") also in this, that he takes his origin through generation, even as God, the Son, was generated ("genitus, non factus") by the Father.' This has been made an argument for the congruity of Christ's Incarnation, i. e. his assumption of the human, rather than the angelical, form and nature; e. g. by Bonaventura, Sent. l. iii. dist. 2, art. 1, quaest. 2: "Secundum namque naturae institutionem maior est congruitas in humana natura quam in angelica; et hoc triplici de causa Prima est propter

personalem discretionem, quae quidem in humana reperitur secundum originem. . . et ideo magis congruebat quod persona Filii, quae distinguitur a persona Patris secundum originem, eam naturam acciperet in qua proprietatem filiationis retineret.'

159/871. demeyned, carried on, accomplished; see N. E. D. s. v. demean, v.1 (where, by the way, in the quotation of our passage hy, fem., referring to engendrure, is unnecessarily altered to hy[t]). Regarding the sense of this and the next stanza we may compare Petr. Lombard., who follows Augustine (Migne, 192, 724): "Caro enim propter peccatum corrupta fuit in Adam, adeo ut cum ante peccatum vir et mulier sine incentivo libidinis et concupiscentiae fervore possent convenire, essetque thorus immaculatus, iam post peccatum non valet fieri carnalis copula absque libidinosa concupiscentia . . .”

MSS. and Books that Editors are wanted for.

Among the MSS. and old books which need copying or re-editing, are:

ORIGINAL SERIES.

EXTRA SERIES.

The Founder and Director of the E. E. T: Soc. is Dr. F. J. Furnivall, 3, St. George's Sq., Primrose Hill, London, N.W. Its Hon. Sec. is W. A. Dalziel, Esq., 67, Victoria Road, Finsbury Park, London, N. The Subscription to the Society is 218. a year for the Original Series, and 21s. for the Extra Series of re-editions.

The Publications for 1900 (one guinea) are:

LXXIX. Caxton's Dialogues, English and French, 1481-3, edited by Henry Bradley, M.A. 10s.
LXXX. Lydgate's two Nightingale Poems, edited from the MSS. by Dr. Otto Glauning. 58.
LXXXI. Gower's Confessio Amantis, vol. 1, re-edited from the best MSS. by G. C. Macaulay, M.A. 158,

The Publications for 1901 (one guinea) are:

LXXXII. Gower's Confessio Amantis, vol. 2, re-edited from the best MSS. by G. C. Macaulay, M.A. 158. LXXXIII. Lydgate's Deguilleville's Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Part II. 108. LXXXIV. Lydgate's Reason and Sensuality, edited by Ernst Sieper, Ph.D. Part I. 58.

The Publications for 1902 will probably be :

LXXXV. Alexander Scott's Poems, 1568, from the unique Edinburgh MS., ed. A. K. Donald, B.A. 108.
LXXXVI. William of Shoreham's Poems, re-edited by Dr. M. Konrath. Part I. 10s.
LXXXVII. Lydgate's Reason and Sensuality, edited by Ernst Sieper, Ph.D. Part II. [At Press.

The Publications for 1903 and 1904 will be chosen from :

William of Shoreham's Poems, re-edited by Dr. M. Konrath. Part II.

Lydgate's DeGuileville's Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Part III.

Melusine, the prose Romance, from the unique MS., ab. 1500, ed. A. K. Donald, B.A. Part II. 10s,
Promptorium Parvulorum, c. 1440, from the Winchester MS., ed. Rev. A. L.. Mayhew, M.A. Part I. 208.
Lydgate's Dance of Death, edited from the MSS. by Miss Florence Warren.

Secreta Secretorum: three prose Englishings, ab. 1440, ed. R. Steele, B.A. Part II. [At Press.
The Craft of Nombrynge, the earliest English Treatise on Arithmetic, ed. R. Steele, B.A. [At Press.

The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, MS. ab, 1425, ed. Dr. Norman Moore, [Set.
The Chester Plays, Part II., re-edited by Dr. Matthews. [At Press.

Lichfield Gilds, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall: Introduction by Prof. E. C. K. Gonner. [Text done.

John Hart's Orthographie, from his unique MS. 1551, and his black-letter text, 1569, ed. Prof. Otto Jespersen, Ph.D. John Hart's Methode to teach Reading, 1570, ed. Prof. Otto Jespersen, Ph.D.

Extracts from the Rochester Diocesan Registers, ed. Hy. Littlehales, Esq.

The Owl and Nightingale, 2 Texts parallel, ed. G. F. H. Sykes, Esq. [At Press.

The Three Kings' Sons, Part II, French collation, Introduction, &c., by Dr. L. Kellner.

The Coventry Plays, re-edited from the unique MS. by Dr. Matthews.

Emare, re-edited from the MSS. by Miss Rickert.