Ælfric's Colloquy

Permit me to correct a singular error into which the great Anglo-Saxon scholars, Messrs. Lye and B. Thorpe, have been betrayed by some careless transcriber of the curious *Monastic Colloquy* by the celebrated *Ælfric*. This production of the middle ages is very distinctly written, both in the Saxon and Latin portions, in the Cotton MS. (Tiberius, A 3, fol. 58 b.) Mr. Lye frequently cites it, in his *Saxon Dictionary*, as "Coll. Mon.," and Mr. Thorpe gives it entire in his *Analecta Anglo-Saxonica*. The former loosely explains *higdifatu*, which occurs in the reply of the shoewright (*sceowyrht…