Note † — BOOK I.
Reading edition
[ix_666] E Lyk wes nane in his day. Neither reading is quite satisfactory. Skeat puts a comma after nane, but what, then, is the subject of wes? Is it not a suppressed relative?—that? Cf. x. 86.
Reading edition
[ix_666] E Lyk wes nane in his day. Neither reading is quite satisfactory. Skeat puts a comma after nane, but what, then, is the subject of wes? Is it not a suppressed relative?—that? Cf. x. 86.