Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
l. 680 _dylle_, slow, sluggish.
681 _dyt_ = _dyde_, did (?), or _dotȝ_, does (?).
690 _oure_, prayer.
P. 22.
l. 726 _sulpande synne_, defiling, polluting, sin.
727 _bylde_, building.
735 _reme_, realm.
P. 23.
l. 752 _Of carpe_, discourse of.
754 _hauyng_, condition, behaviour.
757 _bete_, save, ransom.
759 _make_, wife.
775 _vnder cambe_ = _under-cam_, came under, took an inferior
position (?).
P. 24.
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.
l. 948
_So is hys mote with-outen moote_,
So is his building without mote (blemish).
P. 29.
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).
P. 30.
l. 1018 _Masporye_ = _was pure_ (?).
1022 _brode & stayre_, broad and steep (high).
1026 _þat glent as glayre_, that shone as amber.
P. 31.
l. 1030 _fon_, ceased, the preterite of _fine_.
1038 _fateȝ_ = _fadeȝ_, fades.
1041 _whateȝ_ = _watȝ_, was.
P. 32.
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 (?).
P. 33.
l. 1124 _to loue_, to praise.
1127 _in melle_ = _in-melle_ = _i-melle_, among. Cf. _in-lyche_ and
_i-lyche_, etc.
P. 34.
l. 1141
_Þe lombe delyt non lyste to wene_,
The lamb’s delight none desired to doubt.
1146 _laste and lade_, followed and preceded (?).
1161
_Bot of þat munt I watȝ bi-talt_,
But from that purpose I was aroused (shaken).
1163 _bi-calt_ = _bi-called_ (?), called away.
P. 35.
l. 1165 _flonc_ = _flong_ (?), flung.
1193 _helde_, willingly (inclined).
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