ÆLFRIC’S COLLOQUY

I have my doubts whether MR. SINGER'S ingenious suggestions for explaining the mysterious word *sprote* can be sustained. The Latin sentence appears clearly to end with the word natant, as is not only the case in the St. John's MS., mentioned in MR. THORPE'S note, but in fact, also in the Cottonian MS. There is a point after *natant*, and then follows the word *Saliu* (not *salu*) with a capital S. Any person who examines the handwriting of this MS. will see that the word, whatever the transcriber may have understood by it, was intended by him to stand alone. He must, however, have written it…