The
braunches
were borly, sum of bright gold,
With leuys full luffly, light of the same;
With burions aboue bright to beholde;
And fruit on yt fourmyt of fairest of shap,
Of mony kynd that was knyt, knagged aboue.
Gawaine and the Green Knight
I am inclined to keep to
the reading of the MS., and explain bluk as {ulk hrunk. Cf. the
use of the word Blok in "Early English Alliterative Poems,"
p. 100, l. 272.
558 derue doel, etc. nreat grief. Sir F. Madden reads derne, i.e. secret,
instead of derue (}erf). Cf. line 564.
577 knaged, fastened.
The
braunches
were borly, sum of bright gold,
With leuys full luffly, light of the same;
With burions aboue bright to beholde;
And fruit on yt fourmyt of fairest of shap,
Of mony kynd that was knyt, knagged aboue.
--T.B. l. 4973.
629 & ay quere hit is endele3, etc.
And everywhere it is endless, etc.
Sir F. Madden reads emdele3, i.e. with equal sides.
652 for-be oor-bi urpassing, beyond.
681 for Hadet read Halet taled nxiled (?). See line 1049.
