Pater noster. Aue.
Ho [th]_a_t woll_e_ more loke,
Read the French Reed on [th]e frensch boke,
Book for the And he schall_e_ fynde [th]ere
rest. [Th]ynges [th]at y leete here. 636
But yf [th]at god wolle grau_n_te gr_a_ce,
y schall_e_ rehercy in [th]is place
Alle [th]e kyngez [th]at after were,
And what names [[th]]at [th]ey bere; 640
And ho [th]_a_t woll_e_ [th]eyre gestes loke,
Reed on [th]e Frensch_e_ boke. Amen fiat.
[ FOOTNOTES
2. ? MS. perhaps _Angecye_.
3. The _s_ is rubbed: the word may be "onlesbury."
5. _sepe_, ? for _seue_, seven. It is _p_ not _x_ (six) in the MS.
But as Arthur had 200,000, and Lucius only 400,124, _sepe_ should
mean _two_.
8. Pughe's abridged Dictionary gives _tau_, _v.a._ be still; _taw_,
_s.m._ and _adj._ quiet, silence, silent; _paid_, _s.m._ a cessation,
quiet; _bront_, _a._ nasty, filthy, surly. _Or_, says Dr. Benj.
Davies, you must take as equal to the modern Welsh _wr_, man, if it
is not English; _peyd_ is cease, pause; _taw_, be silent. ]
WORDS
a, he, l. 370.
aspye, _sb._ espial, l. 416.
ayhe, again, l. 126.
beeme, _sb._ ? noise, display, from A.S. _b[e']me_, a trumpet, l. 108.
falde, l. 480, felt, l. 472; field.
fusoun, gain, victory, l. 476. L. _fusio_, outpouring, plenty.
fyched, pierced, l. 462.
goom, man, l. 166.
gysarme, l. 463. _Hallebarde, pique, hache_. Roquefort.
hadde wyste, l. 546, had I known (how it would have turned out). See
Nares, and the Poem "Beware of had-I-wyst," that he quotes. "Beware of
_had-I-wyst_, whose fine bringes care and smart."
hawted, exalted, l. 113.
he, she, l. 582.
helyth, cover, l. 407.
last, lest, l. 289.
loghynge, lodging, l. 344.
lynage, descendant, l. 269.
muchelnesse, _sb._ muchness, number and power, l. 439.
mynde, remembrance, l. 527.
oo, one, l. 49.
sayle, assail, attack, l. 12.
scley, slain, l. 212.
skyle, _sb._ reason, l. 17.
soue[gh] (?), sough, moan, l. 88.
that, ye who, l. 1; those who, l. 42, 84.
theoband (l. 178), is, I expect, miswritten for theo_d_and; A.S.
_[th]eodan_, to join; _ge-[th]eod-an_, to join, associate.
therhenne, thence, l. 591.
toke, gave, l. 329.
venge, have revenge, take vengeance, l. 530.
verrament, truly, l. 32.
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