Note 1142 — ACT V. SCENE I.
Reading edition
ging] i.e. gang. “This substitution of i for a,” says Gifford, in a note on the word, “was common in our author’s days.” B. Jonson’s Works, vol. iv. p. 161. But the fact is, ging is of great antiquity: “The gouernour of this gyng.” Gawayn and the Green Knight, MS. Cott. Nero A. X. fol. 94.