The sense
requires
us to read:
?
?
Gawaine and the Green Knight
I would not [delay to set out], unless I might approach it on New
Year's morn, for all the lands within England, etc.
1074 in spenne in space an the interval eeanwhile. See line 1503.
1160 slentyng of arwes. Sir F. Madden reads sleutyng.
"Of drawyn swordis sclentyng to and fra,
The brycht mettale, and othir armouris seir,
Quharon the sonnys blenkis betis cleir,
Glitteris and schane, and vnder bemys brycht,
Castis ane new twynklyng or a lemand lycht. "
(G. Douglas' AEneid, Vol. 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.
