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These balfull bestes were, as the boke tellus,
Full flaumond of fyre with
fnastyng
of logh.
Gawaine and the Green Knight
"
(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.
1702 fnasted, breathed.
These balfull bestes were, as the boke tellus,
Full flaumond of fyre with
fnastyng
of logh.
--T.
B.
l.
168.
1710 a strothe rande k rugged path.
Cf.
the phrases tene greue, l.
1707;
ro3e greue, l.
1898.
1719 Thenne wat3 hit lif vpon list, etc.
Should we not read:
Thenne wat3 hit list vpon lif, etc.
i.
e.
, Then was there joy in life, etc.
1729 bi lag oe-lagh(?
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