Stacions of Rome, (In Verse from the Vernon MS., ab. 1370 A.D., and in Prose from the and the Pilgrims Sea-Voyage : (From the Trin. Coll., Cambridge, MS. R, 3, 19, t. Hen. VI.) with Clene Maydenkod. (From the Vernon MS., ab. 1370 A.D., in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.) A SUPPLEMENT TO "POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND LOVE POEMS," (Early English Text Society, 1866.) EDITED BY FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL, M.A., TRIN. HALL, CAMBRIDGE. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY, MDCCCLXVII. The Stacions of Rome, (In Verse from the Vernon MS., ab. 1370 A.D., and in Prose from the and the Pilgrims Sea-Voyage. (From the Trin. Coll., Cambridge, MS. R, 3, 19, t. Hen. VI.) A SUPPLEMENT TO "POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND (Early English Text Society, 1866.). PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY, MDCCCLXVII. PREFACE. THE Catalogue that Mr Halliwell printed of the contents of the Vernon MS. was, unluckily, one of his own making, and not a copy of that prefixed to the magnificent Southern-dialect volume by the Scribe who wrote it, and which will, I hope, be printed in the next Text that the Society issues from this MS. One result of the nonpublication of it before, was, that when searching for other copies of the Stacyons of Rome, for the volume of "Political, Religious, and Love Poems," edited by me in the early part of this year for the Society, I saw nothing like the Stacyons in the printed Catalogue, and felt sure that the Poem was not in the Vernon MS., notwithstanding Mr Halliwell's warning that his notices "must be accepted as very imperfect." But as there were two entries in that gentleman's Catalogue of "117, Short Religious Poems, f. 298, ro ß.; 128, Short Religious Poems, fol. 319, ro a," and I had long contemplated continuing the small instalment of these pieces edited by me for the Philological Society (Trans. Pt. II., 1858), I commissioned our Oxford copier to transcribe from the MS. the first and last lines, and burdens if any, of all these Short Poems. The execution of the order was delayed for some months, but when it was completed, and I was turning over the leaves of the copy, what should appear on three of the foolscap sheets, for fol. 314, ro y, to fol. 315 ro y, of the MS., but the first and last lines of the different paragraphs of the Stations,thus explaining Mr Halliwell's entry, "Short Religious Poems." A longish piece, evidently A Dialogue between the Virgin and the |