CONTENTSPAGEIntroduction:The two Versions of the Poem ‘Erthe upon Erthe’ixDescriptive List of MSS. of the PoemxTheAVersionxivTheBVersionxviThe Cambridge TextxxvOrigin and Growth of the PoemxxixLater Versions of the PoemxxxvLiterary InterestxxxviiiEditor’s NotexliTheAVersion:1.MS. Harleian 225312.MS. Harleian 9131TheBVersion:1.William Billyng’s MS52.MS. Thornton63.MS. Selden supra 5374.MS. Egerton 199585.MS. Harleian 167196.MS. Brighton107.The Stratford-on-Avon Inscription118.MS. Rawlinson C. 307129.MS. Harleian 44861310.MS. Lambeth 8531411.MS. Laud Miscellaneous 231612.MS. Cotton Titus A. xxvi1913.MS. Rawlinson Poetical 322014.MS. Porkington 102415.MS. Balliol 3542716.MS. Harleian 9842917.The Maitland MS.3018.John Reidpeth’s MS.31The Cambridge Text32NotesandAnalogues35Appendix:I.‘Erthe’ Poem in Latin, French, and English (Record Office Roll, Exr. K. R. Proceedings, Bdle. 1, and MS. British Museum Additional 25478)41II.(BVersion) additions:19.MS. Trinity College Cambridge R. 3. 214720.MS. Trinity College Cambridge B. 15. 3948Glossary50
I.‘Erthe’ Poem in Latin, French, and English (Record Office Roll, Exr. K. R. Proceedings, Bdle. 1, and MS. British Museum Additional 25478)