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50 Critical and Explanatory Notes. Page 4, lines 21—46.
luue-eie, Ancr. Riwle, p. 420 : Skeat translates his eije, ‘for awe of him/
note to Gamelyn, 1. 129, in harmony with Gamelynes, the genitive limiting
tone, and in keeping with Stiirzen-Becker, Notes on Characteristics of
E. E. Dialects, p. 43; see of god, MSS. A2D H1; and note to 1. 6.
R on its own authority alters the rime to introduce the more Northern
form awe for ciy: : awe : lawe.
1. 23. ]>er: demanded by the context and supplied by MSS. H/T, and
A2, if ]>ei be a scribal error for ]?er. Evidence of texts AjDR would
ascribe the anacoluthon of text Ax to the poet.
L 24. worlde: Hiatus is not justified before and. worlde is mono-
syllabic : worlde and; see world, 11. 33, 64, 99, etc. The verse illustrates
type C : ]?e too-rid and his ' foule lore.
I. 26. hem,: hem, extant in MSS. A2HjH2, and probably in the arche-
type of D is to be inserted to improve the metre. The added syllable
was regarded necessary by R; see variants. Read rode on authority of the
riming couplet: rod : blod, 1. 248. dere bouhte : see note to 1. 160.
II. 27, 28. wole: copyist’s form throughout Ar for wylltp), wil, in
MSS. A2D HjH^ ; cf. rime skile : wole, 1. 712, ‘Introduction,’ chap. Ill,
§ 1 and- § 5, and wole in Langland, A. vii. 144, 208 ; II. 86 ; III. 265 ;
V. 36; VI. 152, 193, 300, etc.
1. 28. tale telle: Compare Zupitza’s note to Athelston, 1. 153, and
Chaucer, Frol. 731, 792, 831. 847; D. L. Frol. 22, 23, 48; Pers. Frol. 21,
25, 46, 66; Duch. 709, 1033, etc.
Reliquiae Antiquoe, p. 241 (II.): ‘ichow wol telle
Of Crist ane litel tale.’
1. 29. of gode fame: Cf. Zupitza’s note to of gret renoun, Athelston, 11.
19, 45 ; Leonard, Ged. aus d. Hoile, B 1. 63; and Spec., 1. 40, where the
holy man and the knight are described in the same class. Cf. as follows :
Spec. Fit., 1. 43 : ‘ Ne of Beus of Hamtoun,
pat was a knyght of gret renoun.’
Erl of T., 1. 178 : ‘Syr Tralabas of Turky
A man of gret renown.'
1. 31. ]>ouht: The sorrowful meditation of the love-poetry of the
century, illustrated by Schick, T. of Gl., note to 1. 1. This meaning
seems justified by the corresponding passages in the various Guy of
Warwick MSS.
1. 35. Type C is confirmed by 1. 35. It would be impossible to read
gode, L 35. See Tundale, 1. 19. all of A2R, or eke of D, are emendations
of the scribe. Cf. and his—I6re.
1. 41. ]te ordre he hadde: For the history of the brotherhood, see
Skeat, note to Peres the- Plowman’s Crede, 1. 153.
1. 43. Wit of clergie: the understanding of books, book-learning,
referring not merely to scholarship as an essential attribute of mediaeval
piety, but to Alcuin’s ambition for an educated priesthood. See also
Hamlet, I. i. 42.
1. 44. to godnesse . . . drouh: Life of St. Dunst., 1. 29. Cf. R. of Gl.,
L 252 : to ... . prowesse he drou; toward ]?e de]w drou, 1. 1159; to
worse . . he drou, 1. 9242. See Strohmeyer, pp. 48, 49.
1. 46. he: he is to be supplied before tok. It is extant in D H}H,,
two MSS. from one group, one from a second, in opposition to two MSS.,
ArA2, one of each group. Grammatically and metrically the sentence is
strengthened by the introduction of the pronoun, though its omission as
subject of the sentence is characteristic of the period ; see Zupitza, note
to Guy of Warwick, 1. 10.
luue-eie, Ancr. Riwle, p. 420 : Skeat translates his eije, ‘for awe of him/
note to Gamelyn, 1. 129, in harmony with Gamelynes, the genitive limiting
tone, and in keeping with Stiirzen-Becker, Notes on Characteristics of
E. E. Dialects, p. 43; see of god, MSS. A2D H1; and note to 1. 6.
R on its own authority alters the rime to introduce the more Northern
form awe for ciy: : awe : lawe.
1. 23. ]>er: demanded by the context and supplied by MSS. H/T, and
A2, if ]>ei be a scribal error for ]?er. Evidence of texts AjDR would
ascribe the anacoluthon of text Ax to the poet.
L 24. worlde: Hiatus is not justified before and. worlde is mono-
syllabic : worlde and; see world, 11. 33, 64, 99, etc. The verse illustrates
type C : ]?e too-rid and his ' foule lore.
I. 26. hem,: hem, extant in MSS. A2HjH2, and probably in the arche-
type of D is to be inserted to improve the metre. The added syllable
was regarded necessary by R; see variants. Read rode on authority of the
riming couplet: rod : blod, 1. 248. dere bouhte : see note to 1. 160.
II. 27, 28. wole: copyist’s form throughout Ar for wylltp), wil, in
MSS. A2D HjH^ ; cf. rime skile : wole, 1. 712, ‘Introduction,’ chap. Ill,
§ 1 and- § 5, and wole in Langland, A. vii. 144, 208 ; II. 86 ; III. 265 ;
V. 36; VI. 152, 193, 300, etc.
1. 28. tale telle: Compare Zupitza’s note to Athelston, 1. 153, and
Chaucer, Frol. 731, 792, 831. 847; D. L. Frol. 22, 23, 48; Pers. Frol. 21,
25, 46, 66; Duch. 709, 1033, etc.
Reliquiae Antiquoe, p. 241 (II.): ‘ichow wol telle
Of Crist ane litel tale.’
1. 29. of gode fame: Cf. Zupitza’s note to of gret renoun, Athelston, 11.
19, 45 ; Leonard, Ged. aus d. Hoile, B 1. 63; and Spec., 1. 40, where the
holy man and the knight are described in the same class. Cf. as follows :
Spec. Fit., 1. 43 : ‘ Ne of Beus of Hamtoun,
pat was a knyght of gret renoun.’
Erl of T., 1. 178 : ‘Syr Tralabas of Turky
A man of gret renown.'
1. 31. ]>ouht: The sorrowful meditation of the love-poetry of the
century, illustrated by Schick, T. of Gl., note to 1. 1. This meaning
seems justified by the corresponding passages in the various Guy of
Warwick MSS.
1. 35. Type C is confirmed by 1. 35. It would be impossible to read
gode, L 35. See Tundale, 1. 19. all of A2R, or eke of D, are emendations
of the scribe. Cf. and his—I6re.
1. 41. ]te ordre he hadde: For the history of the brotherhood, see
Skeat, note to Peres the- Plowman’s Crede, 1. 153.
1. 43. Wit of clergie: the understanding of books, book-learning,
referring not merely to scholarship as an essential attribute of mediaeval
piety, but to Alcuin’s ambition for an educated priesthood. See also
Hamlet, I. i. 42.
1. 44. to godnesse . . . drouh: Life of St. Dunst., 1. 29. Cf. R. of Gl.,
L 252 : to ... . prowesse he drou; toward ]?e de]w drou, 1. 1159; to
worse . . he drou, 1. 9242. See Strohmeyer, pp. 48, 49.
1. 46. he: he is to be supplied before tok. It is extant in D H}H,,
two MSS. from one group, one from a second, in opposition to two MSS.,
ArA2, one of each group. Grammatically and metrically the sentence is
strengthened by the introduction of the pronoun, though its omission as
subject of the sentence is characteristic of the period ; see Zupitza, note
to Guy of Warwick, 1. 10.