EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION

BY

ROBERT STEELE

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY

BY HUMPHREY MILFORD, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,

AMEN CORNER, E.C. 4. 1922

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ȝ, ſ (yogh, long s)
ɳ, łł (n with curl, crossed l: see below)
φ (Greek phi, sometimes used in printed text for 0)

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In The Crafte of Nombrynge, final n was sometimes written with an extra curl as n with curl. It has been rendered as ɳ for visual effect; the character is not intended to convey phonetic information. In the same selection, the numeral “0” was sometimes printed as Greek φ (phi); this has been retained for the e-text. Double l with a line joined ll is shown as łł. The first few occurrences of d (for “pence”) were printed with a curl as d with curl. The letter is shown with the same d’ used in the remainder of the text.

The word “withdraw” or “withdraw” was inconsistently hyphenated; it was left as printed, and line-end hyphens were retained. All brackets [ ] are in the original.

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