Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
l. 802
_& as a lombe þat clypper in lande nem_, And as a lamb that a _shearer_ has taken, etc. 813-4 For us he let himself be scourged and buffetted, and stretched upon a rough tree (_i.e._ nailed to the cross).
P. 25.
l. 836 _as bare_, (?) _al bare_, openly. See 1025. 837 _Lesande þe boke with leueȝ sware_, Opening the book with leaves square. 839 _& at þat syȝt vche douth con dare_, And at that sight each doughty (one) did tremble (with fear). 849 enle = _eneli_ = onely or _onlepi_ (?) = singly, alone.
P. 26.
l. 865 _talle farande_ = _tale farande_, pleasing story. 873 _hue_, cry, voice. 876 _lote_, sound.
P. 27.
l. 896 _lote_, features. 909 _hynde_ = _hende_, gentle, courteous (one). 911 _bustwys as a blose_, boisterous (wild) as a blaze (flame). 916 _With nay þou neuer my ruful bone_, Do thou never refuse my mournful request.
P. 28.