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Text 004 & 5a Peterborough Chronicle Old English | (0.846Mb)

Text 014 Cædmon’s Hymn West Saxon & Northumbrian Old English | (1.39Mb)

Text 033 Peterborough Chronicle, 1140 Early Middle English | (0.861Mb)

Text 035 Ormulum, late 12th C. Early East Midlands Middle English | (1.16Mb)

Text 053 Ayebite of Inwyt, 1340 Kentish Middle English | (1.79Mb)

Text 059 Barbour’s The Brace, c.1375 Scots Middle English | (0.825Mb)

Text 062 York Pentecost Play, c.1470 Northern Middle English | (1.43Mb)

Text 066 Sir Gawayn and þ e Grene Knygt West Midland Middle English | (1.89Mb)

Text 068 Piers Plowman, c.1370 West Midland Middle English | (0.757Mb)

Text 082 The Friar’s Tale, late 14th C. East Midland/London Middle English | (1.11Mb)

Text 085 Boke of Margery Kempe East Midland Early Modern English, c.1420 | (0.997Mb)

Text 089 Paston Letters East Midland Early Modern English, c.1480 | (2.29Mb)

Text 110 John Hart’s An Orthographie, London Early Modern English, 1569 | (1.36Mb)

Text 120 Sir Thomas Browne, On the Early Modern English Badger, 1646 | (1.73Mb)

Text 146 Rhymes in John Dryden’s Early Modern English Aeneis, 1697 Versions of ‘Peter’s denial’ - St Matthew’s Gospel, Ch xxvi, vv.69-75: | (2.12Mb)

Text 174 Late West Saxon Old English | (1.49Mb)

Text 175 14th-century South Midland Middle English | (1.25Mb)

Text 176 Early 16th-century Scots Middle English | (1.23Mb)

Text 177 Early Modern English late 16th century | (1.34Mb)

Text 178 Early Modern English early 17th century | Audio (mp3) | (1.31Mb)

Text 179 20th-century Scots | (0.951Mb)

Text 180 20th-century Modern English | (1.14Mb)

Text 181 20th-century Bislama (Vanuatu Pidgin English) | (1.81Mb)