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Due to technical difficulties, I'm sending out this message from Milla. Abigail ===================================== Alan et al: I would refer you to my edition of Wisdom, as I suggested yesterday, for a fairly detailed analysis of the Digby dialect. It is not as late as it looks. There are some features that, isolated, point to an earlier date, and some of what seems late is a bit misleading -- i.e. having to do w. the urbanity of the dialect more than its date, esp. as compared to the dialect of the Macro Manuscript, which contains some of the same texts, including WISDOM (the source of my interest). I could look up the arguments I compiled some decade ago and present a summary here, but it will not be as convincing as I believe the published argument to be. Check it out and see what you think. The important thing is that the Macro Manuscript, usually thought to be an earlier manuscript than the Digby, is a direct COPY of the Digby. This is indisputable. See WISDOM: ITS TEXTS AND CONTEXTS (AMS Press). Written in the early 1990s but not published until around 1999 or so. Milla Riggio -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page