Note 758 — Chapter XI · THE FAIR MAID
Reading edition
Skeat connotes naughty with “na not, wiht a whit, see no and whit”: it would thus seem to have been equivalent to no white, which is black or nocturnal.
Reading edition
Skeat connotes naughty with “na not, wiht a whit, see no and whit”: it would thus seem to have been equivalent to no white, which is black or nocturnal.