169 f. 'Now, sweet sir, one can trust you to keep an appointment.'

175. _þat þe falled_, 'what fell to your lot', i.e. the right to deal

the first blow.

177. _oure one_, 'by ourselves'. To _one_ 'alone' in early ME. the

dative pronoun was added for emphasis, _him one_, _us one_, &c. Later

and more rarely the possessive pronoun is found, as here. _Al(l)_ was

also used to strengthen _one_; so that there are six possible ME. types:

(1) _one_, e.g. ll. 6, 50; (2) _him one_; (3) _his one_; (4) _al one_ =

_alone_ l. 87; (5) _al him one_, or _him al one_; (6) _al his one_, or

_his al one_.

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