222. #Als he let#: read, Let he als, he pretended as if: comp. ‘Sho lete
als sho him noght had sene,’ Ywain, 1809.
226. For #spien# with acc. comp. ‘Bot er yee comen þe land to spi,’ CM
4824; ‘vous venez ceste terre | espier et conquerre,’ Joseph.
230. #doðes#: Mätzner’s suggestion, doð us, causes us, gives the best
solution. Comp. 206/303.
233-236. ‘Impossibile est enim viro idiote tales filios esse · cum etiam
regibus talis filiorum copia valde sit difficilis,’ C. #forgeten#:
explained by Mätzner as forgotten, with meaning, of no account, obscure,
which is without parallel. Probably for geten, for progeny, offspring:
get is however not instanced in that sense before the fourteenth
century.
235. For seldom hath it befallen even to a king: for this practically
adverbial use of #self#, comp. ‘God haued swilc fair-hed him geuen, |
ðat self ðe fon it leten liuen,’ GE 2609: ‘Self his kinde nile ðat wune
forgeten,’ id. 1806.