Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century

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_So is hys mote with-outen moote_, So is his building without mote (blemish).

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ll. 975-6 _& I an-endeȝ þe on his syde Schal sve, tyl þou to a hil be veued,_ And I opposite thee on this side Shall go, till thou to a hill be passed. 980-81 _& blusched on þe burghe, as I forth dreued, Byȝonde þe brok fro me warde keued,_ And looked on the city, as I forth drove (urged), Beyond the brook that cut me off from (the object of my desire).

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l. 1018 _Masporye_ = _was pure_ (?). 1022 _brode & stayre_, broad and steep (high). 1026 _þat glent as glayre_, that shone as amber.

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l. 1030 _fon_, ceased, the preterite of _fine_. 1038 _fateȝ_ = _fadeȝ_, fades. 1041 _whateȝ_ = _watȝ_, was.

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ll. 1065-66 _Þe ȝates stoken watȝ neuer ȝet, Bot euer more vpen at vche a lone._ The gates shut were never yet, But ever more open at every lane. 1073 _to euen with_, to equal with, to match with. 1084 _falure_ = _fasure_, form (?).

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l. 1124 _to loue_, to praise. 1127 _in melle_ = _in-melle_ = _i-melle_, among. Cf. _in-lyche_ and _i-lyche_, etc.

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