I am
inclined
to keep to
the reading of the MS.
the reading of the MS.
Gawaine and the Green Knight
This word is exceedingly common in the T.
Book
(see l. 3391).
I bid you now, barlay, with besines at all
? at ye set you most soverainly my suster to gete. --T. B. l. 2780.
394 siker. Sir F. Madden reads swer.
440 bluk. Sir F. Madden suggests blunk (horse).
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.
(see l. 3391).
I bid you now, barlay, with besines at all
? at ye set you most soverainly my suster to gete. --T. B. l. 2780.
394 siker. Sir F. Madden reads swer.
440 bluk. Sir F. Madden suggests blunk (horse).
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.
