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literary property of which the age of manuscript knew
little or nothing, and has modified the psychological
processes by which we use words for the communication
of thought. The breadth of the gulf which separates the
age of manuscript from the age of print is not always, nor
fully, realized by those who begin to read and criticize
medieval literature. When we take up a printed edition of
a medieval text, provided with an introduction, a critical
apparatus of variant readings, notes and glossary, we
bring unconsciously to its perusal those prejudices and
prepossessions which years of association with printed
matter have made habitual. We are liable to forget that
we are dealing with the literature of an age when
orthographical standards varied and grammatical
accuracy was not highly esteemed, when language was
fluid and was not necessarily regarded as a mark of