Changes and specimens of the English language

See Dr. Johnson's History of the English Language, in his Quarto Dictionary.With respect to the letters, there are several changes to be mentioned.Example of the earliest English Blank Verse; written about 1540.Example from Mandeville, the English traveller-written in 1356.Language, p. 22.Curme, G. O. (1955) , English Grammar.Dowty, D. R., Karttunen, L. and Zwicky, A. M. (eds) (1985) , Natural Language Parsing.G. Leech and G. Sampson (eds) The Computational Analysis of English.Georgiev, H. (1991) , 'English Algorithmic Grammar', in Applied Computer Translation, Vol.1 The orthography of English.