Note 22 — PREFACE.
Reading edition
MS. biþ; of. l. 2470.
23 MS. kaue.
24 MS. “wepne bere,” where “bere” is redundant.
25 MS. hede.
26 Printed thus in the former edition:— “But to rewnesse him thit drow.” But the MS. has fo, not to, where fo is corruptly written for for, as in l. 1318; and the initial letter of the last syllable but one may be read as a Saxon w (ƿ), not a thorn-letter (þ). It merely repeats the idea in ll. 497, 498.
27 Qu. mouth.
28 MS. she.
29 So in MS. Qu. þe.