Book 2 — NOTES TO BOOK II.

P. 38, l. 1279. thocht, anxiety.

1284. apperans, i.e. vision, as in l. 364.

1295. aqwynt, acquainted; Burns uses acquent.

1297. com, coming.

P. 39, l. 1316. “So far out of the way you go in your course.” Compare l. 1797.

1317. “Thy ship, that goeth upon the stormy surge, nigh of thy revels (i.e. because of thy revels) in the gulf it falls, where it is almost drowned in the peril.”

1321. “In the wretched dance of wickedness.” See the curious uses of the word “daunce” in Chaucer.

1323. the son, thee soon.

1330. powert, poverty; as the-selwyne wat, as thyself knows.

1334. in to spousag, in wedlock.

P. 40, l. 1343. The word diuerss is required to complete the line; cf. l. 731.

1352. suppriss, oppression.

1354. wedwis, widows.

1367. that ilke, that same.

1369. sufferith, makest to suffer.

P. 41, l. 1379. Eccles. iv. 9, 10.

1387. yow mone, thou must.

1392. her-efter leif, hereafter live.

1401. A comma is scarcely needed after “sapiens.” It means “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” Prov. ix. 10.

P. 42, l. 1409. to ryng wnder his pess, to reign under His peace, by His permission. Roquefort gives pais, licence, permission.

1420. arour, error.

1427. leful, lawful.

P. 43, l. 1447. Ban, king of Albanak, was Lancelot’s father. See l. 202, 1450.

1474. The MS. has “aſſit.”

P. 44, l. 1491. tak the bak apone themself, turn their backs.

1500. yewyne, given.

1504. till, to; redundant.

1506. stand aw, stand in awe. So also in l. 2684. The same expression occurs in The Bruce, iii. 62, ed. Pinkerton, p. 42, ed. Jamieson; and also in Havelok, l. 277, where the word in, supplied from conjecture, should be struck out.

P. 45, l. 1537. throw his peple, by his people.

1541. Thus falith not, etc., “Except wise conduct falleth to a king.”

1546. It may be right to retain the spelling of the MS.—“kinghe;” for, though strange and unusual, it occurs again in l. 2527.

P. 46, l. 1556. wende, weened.

1560. in to his contrare, against him.

1568. trewis, truce.

1575. his powar, his chief army.

1576. by the yhere, by the ear, privately.

1579. cold, called; as in l. 753.

P. 47, l. 1597. home fair, go home.

1608. And; redundant in modern English. For many of the precepts given by Amytans the author must have been indebted to Gower, or, at any rate, to the author of the Secreta Secretorum. See Gower; Conf. Amantis; ed. Pauli, lib. vii; vol. 3, pp. 152-159. And cf. Tyrwhitt’s note to the Canterbury Tales, l. 16915; and Warton’s Hist. Eng. Poetry.

P. 48, l. 1628. lest, least; low, law. It requires care to distinguish the two meanings of low, viz. love and law.

1633. Iug, judge.

P. 49, l. 1660. sar, sorely.

1666. A line omitted. The inserted line is purely conjectural.

P. 50, l. 1704. pupelle, people.

1708. Inwyus, envious.

1716. longith, belongeth.

1717. the lykith, it likes thee, thou art pleased.

P. 51, l. 1724. betak til hyme, confer upon him.

1730. essy, easy.

1736. for the nonis, for the occasion. See White’s Ormulum.

1739. vn to the vorthi pur yow if, unto the worthy poor thou give.

1742. set nocht of gret substans, though not of great value.

1754. alowit, approved of.

P. 52, l. 1761. tynith, loseth.

1763. atonis, at once.

1771. resawe, receive.

1773. with two, also.

P. 53, l. 1791. well less, al-out, much less, altogether. The punctuation hereabouts in Stevenson’s edition is very wild.

1795. wys, vice; the wrechitness, thy miserliness.

1797. pass the courss, go thy way.

1808. vrech, wretch; but here used instead of miser.

1812. viss, vice.

1814. ben y-knawith, are known (to be) (?).

1815. dant, daunt.

1822. the ton, the one.

P. 54, l. 1832. beis var, beware.

1834. colde, cool.

1852. onys, once.

1855. whar-throw, through which, whereby.

P. 55, l. 1864, awn, own. The metre requires the more usual form awin.

1879. dispolȝeith, despoileth.

1881. For-quhi, wherefore. In this line the MS. has “scrikth.”

P. 56, l. 1899. most nedis, must needs. Ye = the; i.e. The one, He.

1909. Mot, might.

1917. in should be into, as elsewhere.

P. 57, l. 1940. havith, hath.

1950. hot, hight, is called.

P. 58, l. 1966. wnepwnist, unpunished.

1990. omend, amend; spill, destroy.

P. 59, l. 2011. ayre, are.

2012. duclar, declare; so also dulay for delay.

2017. the god werray, the Very God.

P. 60, l. 2036. For-quhi, wherefore.

2040. mad, made.

2041. clergy, science.

2062. be the mycht dewyne, by the might divine.

P. 61, l. 2069. far, fare.

2079. helyth frome the ground, heals from the bottom; i.e. effectually.

2100. not sessith, who ceaseth not.

P. 62, l. 2107. Ne war, were it not for; hartly, hearty; it occurs again four lines below.

2135. yneuch, enough. He means he will ask but one question more.

P. 63, l. 2148. To passing home, to go home.

2162. the xxiiij day. The first i in the MS. is like a “v” smudged over; we should read “xxiiij,” as in l. 2155. The contraction is to be read four and twentieth, not twenty-fourth; so also in l. 610.

P. 64, l. 2190. hal dure, hall door.

2192. o iorne most for to comend, a journey most to be commended.

2194. lowith, love.

P. 65, l. 2212. the fewar eschef thay, the less they achieve.

2229. “For no adventure will prove so great, that ye shall not achieve it.”

2241. whill, until.

P. 66, l. 2247. galot; so in MS.

2265. grant mercy, great thanks; Fr. grand merci.

2267. quhy, because.

P. 67, l. 2279. thithingis, tidings; probably an error of the scribe for tithingis. Stevenson has chichingis!

2284. al-out, altogether.

2304. oft syss, oft-times. See Glossary (Syss).

2306. dante, dainty.

2310. tithandis, tidings; compare l. 2279.

P. 68, l. 2323. aw, owe.

2328. fantessy, fancy, notion.

2334. for no why, for no reason.

2337. mon I fair, must I go.

2338. our son It waire, over soon it were.

2342. For-quhy, because.

P. 69, l. 2352. nor has the force of but.

2366. be ony men, by any means.

2368. on of tho, one of them.

2375. chen of low, chain of love.

2376. and if ȝhe may deren, an if you may declare.

P. 70, l. 2409. hartly raquer, heartily require.

2416. gar ordan, cause to be provided.

P. 71, l. 2428. prewaly disspone, privily dispose.

2436. ellis-quhat; I suppose this means, “he was on fire elsewhere.”

2448. hamlynes, homeliness.

2452. fest throw al the ȝher eliche, feast through all the year alike.

P. 72, l. 2469. commend, commended.

2470. he drywith, he driveth, pursueth. The reading is not drawith, as in Stevenson.