ÆLFRIC'S COLLOQUY

I must trouble you and some of your readers with a few words, in reply to the doubt of "C.W.G." (No. 16. p. 248.) respecting the word *sprote*. I do not think the point, and the Capital letter to *saliu* in the Latin text, conclusive, as nothing of the kind occurs in the A.-S. version, where the reading is clearly, "*swa hwylce swa*, on watere swymmath sprote." I have seen the Cottonian MS., which, as Mr. Hampson observes, is very distinctly written, both in the Saxon and Latin portions; so much so in the latter, as to make it a matter of surprise that the doubtful word *saliu* should ever hav…