286-7. 'Let a true man truly repay—then one need dread no peril.'

291. _weued_: perhaps not a weak pa. t. of _weave-woven_, but rather

means 'to give', from OE. _wǣfan_, 'to move'; _weue_ in this sense

occurs in _Gawayne_ l. 1976.

294-5. 'And truly you seem to me the most faultless man that ever walked

on foot.' The ME. construction, _on þe fautlest_, where _on_ 'one'

strengthens the superlative, is found in Chaucer, _Clerk's Tale_ 212:

_Thanne was she oon the faireste under sonne,_

and still survives in Shakespeare's time, e.g. _Henry VIII_, II. iv. 48

f. _one the wisest prince_. It has been compared with Latin _unus

maximus_, &c. In modern English the apposition has been replaced, with

weakening of the sense: _one_ of _the (wisest)_, &c.

298. _yow lakked... yow wonted_: impersonal, since _yow_ is dative,

'there was lacking in you'.

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