331. I have transposed MS. #of# _þe grene chapel_ #at# _cheualrous
knyȝteȝ_, because such a use of _at_ is hardly conceivable. A
copyist might easily make the slip. Cp. l. 35.
344. _Boþe þat on and þat oþer_: Besides the Green Knight's young wife,
there was a much older lady in the castle, 'yellow', with 'rugh, ronkled
chekeȝ', and so wrapped up
_Þat noȝt watȝ bare of þat burde bot þe blake broȝes,
Þe tweyne yȝen, and þe nase, þe naked lyppeȝ,
And þose were soure to se, and sellyly blered._
_Gawayne_ ll. 961-3.
350-1. 'And David afterwards, who suffered much evil, was <morally>
blinded by Bathsheba.'
352-6. 'Since these were injured with their wiles, it would be a great
gain to love them well, and not believe them—for a man who could do it
[cp. note to XI _b_ 209]. For these (Adam, Solomon, &c.) were of old the
noblest, whom all happiness followed, surpassingly, above all the others
that lived beneath the heavens.' _mused_ 'thought' is used for the rime,
and means no more than 'lived'. ll. 354-6 amount to 'above all other
men'.