Editorial note — GLOSSARIAL INDEX. (continued 2)
Reading edition
This book exists in at least two forms, distinguished by minor differences in the modern (1868) material. The title page(s), verso and introduction give no hint that there were any changes or additions; references to the “former” and “present” edition are to Madden alone (Roxburghe, 1828) contrasted with Skeat (EETS, 1868). For convenience the two 1868 variants will be called “preliminary” and “final”. The 1975 reprint used the “final” version.
p. 24, l. 784. Perhaps we should, however, read se-weren, and the note on the line (p. 93) may be wrong. See Weren in the Glossary.
The preliminary version of the Emendations reads:
... Perhaps there should be no stop in the line, and ...
There are no differences in the body text or Note.
The last five Emendations— changes to glossary items Greting, Hal, Shoten (Schoten), Teyte, Bise— are missing from the preliminary version.
Datheit, interj. ... [from the O.F. hait, pleasure].
In the preliminary version, the bracketed addition reads “possibly from haïr, to hate”.
Pastees ... Al of pasteiis beth the walles.
The preliminary version has the apparent error pasteüs.
Weren ...
The preliminary version is printed without brackets but is otherwise identical.