"Now to speke of the boore, the fyrste year he is
A pygge of the sounder callyd, as haue I blys;
The secounde yere an hogge, and soo shall he be,
And an hoggestere, whan he is of yeres thre;
And when he is foure yere, a boor shall he be,
From the sounder of the swyne thenne departyth he;
A
synguler
is he soo, for alone he woll go.
Gawaine and the Green Knight
i, p. 421.)
1281 let lyk oppeared pleased.
1283 ?a3 I were burde bry3test, ?e burde in mynde hade, etc.
The sense requires us to read:
?a3 ho were burde bry3test, ?e burne in mynde hade, etc.
i.e., Though she were lady fairest, the knight in mind had, etc.
1440 Long sythen [seuered] for ?e sounder ?at wi3t for-olde
Long since separated from the sounder or herd that fierce (one)
for-aged (grew very old).
"Now to speke of the boore, the fyrste year he is
A pygge of the sounder callyd, as haue I blys;
The secounde yere an hogge, and soo shall he be,
And an hoggestere, whan he is of yeres thre;
And when he is foure yere, a boor shall he be,
From the sounder of the swyne thenne departyth he;
A
synguler
is he soo, for alone he woll go.
"
(Book of St. Alban's, ed. 1496, sig. d., i.)
1476 totes eooks, toots.
Sho went up wightly by a walle syde.
To the toppe of a toure and tot ouer the water.--T.B. l. 862.
1623 A verb [? lalede nried] seems wanting after lorde.
