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<E><HG><HL>be</HL><PS>v</PS></HG><Q><D> 1656</D><OF>was</OF><ver>N</ver><T><l> Down Turn-bull street as she did passe,<l> she heard a Bird sing in a Glende,<l> the chiefest of whose Note it was,<l> no pleasure to a bounteous friend, in a corner. </T><W>trepan, 31</W></Q><E.id>031943</E.id></E>
<E><HG><HL>be</HL><PS>v</PS></HG><Q><D>none</D><OF>was</OF><OF>weare</OF><OF>beinge</OF><OF>bee</OF><OF>are</OF><ver>N</ver><T>the yearinges weare large, and the two yeares little, soe that there was little difference in theire bignesse, soe that they wente all for halfe gates, beinge that they coulde not bee discerned: besides, if they bee not full two yeare olde they are called but yeeringes:</T><W>best, farming bk. (surtees soc., 1857), 120</W></Q><E.id>038000</E.id></E>
<E><HG><HL>be</HL><PS>v</PS></HG><Q><D>1475</D><OF>are</OF><ver>N</ver><T> It[e]m All baner berrers and standare[z] berers to haue doble wag[es] aftyr as they Are of aveour or degree</T><W>edw. iv's fr. exped. (ed. barnard, . . .

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<E><HG><HL>be</HL><PS>v</PS></HG><Q><D> 1656</D><OF>was</OF><ver>Y</ver><T><l> Down Turn-bull &s;treet as &s;he did pa&s;&s;e,<l> &s;he heard a Bird &s;ing in a Glende,<l> the chiefe&s;t of who&s;e Note it was,<l> no plea&s;ure to a bounteous friend, in a corner. </T><W>trepan, 31</W></Q><E.id>031943</E.id></E>
<E><HG><HL>be</HL><PS>v</PS></HG><Q><D>none</D><OF>was</OF><OF>weare</OF><OF>beinge</OF><OF>bee</OF><OF>are</OF><ver>N</ver><T>the yearinges weare large, and the two yeares little, soe that there was little difference in theire bignesse, soe that they wente all for halfe gates, beinge that they coulde not bee discerned: besides, if they bee not full two yeare olde they are called but yeeringes:</T><W>best, farming bk. (surtees soc., 1857), 120</W></Q><E.id>038000</E.id></E>
<E><HG><HL>be</HL><PS>v</PS></HG><Q><D>1475</D><OF>are</OF><ver>Y</ver><T> It[e]m All baner berrers and &s;tandare[z] berers to haue doble wag[es] aftyr as they Are of aveour o&r; deg&r;ee</T><W>edw. iv's f . . .

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There are two versions of the Michigan Early Modern English
Materials included on this tape. One retains every special
character marked in the original file, rendering them in
the style
&char;
where char is the character that followed an asterisk. Such
characters include the long s and more common special forms of
characters such as r and m, and so are rendered &s; &r; and &m;.
This file is called MEMEM.spec-chars.Z and is compressed (standard
UNIX "compress"). The other file retains only
& ampersand
&A; upper case ash
&a; lower case ash
&O; upper case oe ligature
&o; lower case oe ligature
&D; upper case edth
&d; lower case edth
&T; upper case thorn
&t; lower case thorn
&L; pound symbol
&ss; eszet
and is found as MEMEM.
The files are compiled from a hodgepodge of pattern-matching
routines whose validity was loosely "checked" with multidocs. Multidocs,
a utility prepared by Open Text, Inc., ascertains that tag sets are
paired and that they don't overlap (e.g . . .