Argentille,
La meschine qu'ert sa fille,
Que ia estoit creue & grant,
Et bien poeit auoir enfant.
[338. _Sawe_, put for "Say we." Cf. _biddi_ for "bidde i," l. 484;
_hauedet_ for "hauede it," 714; &c.
365. _His quiste_, &c. "His bequest made, and (things) distributed for
him."]
433.
_Crist warie him with his mouth!
Waried wrthe he of north and suth!_
So, in the Romance of Merlin, Bishop Brice curses the enemies of Arthur,
Ac, for he is king, and king's son,
Y curse alle, and y dom
His enemies with Christes mouth,
By East, by West, by North, and South!
Ellis, _Metr. Rom._ V. I. p. 260.
[506. For _nouth_ we must read _mouth_ or _wolde_. The sense is-- "He
thought that he would he were dead, except that he might not (_or_ would
not) slay him with his (own) hand."
550. The sense is-- "When he had done that deed (i.e. gagged the child),
_then_ the deceiver had commanded him," &c.
560. _with_ may mean _knowest_, but this hardly gives sense. Perhaps we
should read _wilt_, i.e. "As thou wilt have (preserve) my life."
567. Mr Morris suggests that the riming words are _adoun_ and _croune_.
We might then read--
"And caste þe knaue so harde adoun,
þat he crakede þer hise croune."]