All the company enclin{et} cair{yn} to ship; Cach{yn} in cables, knyt up _hor_ ancres, Sesit vp _hor_ sailes in a sad hast; _Richet_ þere rapes, rapit unto see. Hokit out of hauyn, all the hepe somyn, _Hade bir at hor bake_, blawen to þe depe; Sail{yn} forthe _soberly_, somyn but a while, Noght fyftene forlong fairly to the end. . . . . . . . . . . . When sodenly the softe aire _unsoberly_ rose; The cloudis overcast, _claterrit_ aboute; Wyndes full wodely _walt_ up the ythes; Wex _merke_ as the mydnighte mystes full thicke: Thunret in the _thestur throly_ with all; With a _launchant laite_ lightonyd the water; And a _ropand_ rayne _raiked_ fro the heuyn. The storme was full stithe with mony stout windes, Hit _walt_ up the wilde se vppon wan hilles. The ffolke was so ferd, that _on flete_ were, All drede for to drowne with dryft of the se; And in perell were put all the proude kynges. --(p. 150.) [Footnote 1: Edited by Sir Frederic Madden for the Bannatyne Club, under the title of “Syr Gawayn and the Grene Knyȝt,” and by me for the Early English Text Soc., 1865.] [Footnote 2: Wyntown nowhere asserts that Huchowne is a Scotchman.] [Footnote 3: Edited for E. E. T. Soc. by Rev. G. G. Perry, M.A.] [Footnote 4: This is evident from the following particulars:-- I. In old Scotch manuscripts we find the guttural _gh_ (or ȝ) represented by _ch_; thus, _aght_, _laght_, _saght_, _wight_, are the English forms which, in the Scotch orthography, become _aucht_ (owed), _laucht_ (seized), _saucht_ (peace), _wicht_ (active). It is the former orthography, however, that prevails in the Morte Arthure. II. We miss the Scotch use of (1) _-is_ or _-ys_, for _-es_ or _-s_, in the plural number, and of possessive cases of nouns, and in the person endings of the present tense indicative mood of verbs; (2) _-it_ or _-yt_, for _-ed_ or _-d_, in the preterites or passive participles of regular verbs. III. There is a total absence of the well-known Scotch forms _begouth_ (began), _sa_ (so), _sic_ (such), _throuch_, _thorow_ (through). Instead of these _bigan_, _so_, _syche_, _thrughe_ (_thurgh_) are employed. See Preface to Hampole’s Pricke of Conscience, pp. vii, viii.] [Footnote 5: This is shown by the frequent employment of _-es_ as the person ending of the verb in the present tense, plural number. The corresponding Southern verbal inflexion _-eth_ _never_ occurs; while the Midland _-en_ is only occasionally met with in the third person plural present, and has been introduced by a later copyist. There are other characteristics, such as the predominance of words containing the A.S. long _a_; as _hame_ (home), _stane_ (stone), _thra_ (bold), _walde_ (would), etc.; the frequent use of _thir_ (these), _tha_ (the, those), etc.]