Note 1 — Words
Reading edition
? soneȝ (return)
2.
? MS. perhaps Angecye. (return)
3.
The s is rubbed: the word may be "onlesbury." (return)
4.
? MS. y-tan. (return)
5.
tombe (return)
6.
sepe, ? for seue, seven. It is p not x (six) in the MS. But as Arthur had 200,000, and Lucius only 400,124, sepe should mean two. (return)
7.
Þat ys to seye vpon a reess, "Stynking Saxoun, be on pees." (return)
8.
Pughe's abridged Dictionary gives tau, v.a. be still; taw, s.m. and adj. quiet, silence, silent; paid, s.m. a cessation, quiet; bront, a. nasty, filthy, surly. Or, says Dr. Benj. Davies, you must take as equal to the modern Welsh wr, man, if it is not English; peyd is cease, pause; taw, be silent. (return)