Book I

, l. 27, he writes _dorst_ for _dorste_, though it ruins the grammar and the metre; in l. 31, he actually has _hym_ for _hem_, to the destruction of the sense; in l. 69, he has _high_ (!) for _highte_; and so on. It therefore requires careful control. In particular, the scribe gives many examples of the fault of 'anticipation,' i.e. the fault whereby the mind, swifter than the pen, has induced him to write down letters that belong to a _later_ syllable or word, or to omit one or more letters. Thus in