English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500; Great Britain -- History -- 14th century -- Sources
188-9. _banned_: _woned_. The rime (OE. _bannan_ and _wunian_) is false,
and the use of _woned_ 'remained' is suspicious. Mannyng perhaps wrote
_bende_ 'put in bonds': _wende_ (= _ȝede_ l. 191) 'went'; or (if the
form _band_ for _banned(e)_ could be evidenced so early) _band_
'cursed': _wand_, pret. of _winden_, 'went'.
195. _fal yn a swone_: So MS., showing that by the second half of the
fourteenth century the pp. adj. _aswon_ had been wrongly analysed into
the indef. article _a_ and a noun _swon_. Mannyng may have written
_fallen aswone_. See Glossary, _s.v._ _aswone_.
234. _Wyth sundyr lepys_: 'with separate leaps'; but _Wyth_ was probably
added by a scribe who found in his original _sundyrlepys_, adv., meaning
'separately',—
_Kar suvent par les mains
Des malvais escrivains
Sunt livre corrumput._
240. _Seynt Edyght._ St. Edith (d. 984) was daughter of King Edgar, and
abbess of Wilton. The rime is properly _Edit_: _Teodric_, for _t_ and
_k_ are sufficiently like in sound to rime together in the best ME.
verse; cp. note to XV _g_ 27.
246. _Brunyng... seynt Tolous_: Latin _Bruno Tullanus_. Robert probably
did not hesitate to provide a rime by turning Toul into Toulouse. Bruno
afterwards became Pope Leo IX (1049-54).
254-5. _trowed_: _God_. Read _trŏd_, a shortened form, revealed by
rimes in North Midland texts. The identical rime occurs three times in
Mannyng's _Chronicle_ (ed. Hearne, p. 339; ed. Furnivall, ll. 7357-8,
8111-12); and, again with substitution of _troud_ for _trod_, in
_Havelok_, ll. 2338-9. Cp. note to XVII 56.
II
#Dialect#: South-Western, with some admixture of Northern forms due to a
copyist.
#Inflexions#:—
VERB: pres. ind. 1 sg. _ichaue_, &c. (see note to l. 129).
2 sg. _makest_ 169, _worst_ 170.
3 sg. _geþ_ (in rime) 238; contracted _fint_ 239,
_last_ 335, _sitt_ 443, _stont_ 556.
2 pl. _ȝe beþ_ 582.
3 pl. _strikeþ_ 252 (proved by rime with 3 sg.
_likeþ_).
imper. pl. _make_ 216, _chese_ 217; beside _doþ_ 218.
pres. p. _berking_ 286 (in rime with verbal sb.);
_daunceing_ (in rime) 298. The forms _kneland_ 250,
_liggeand_ 388, are due to a Northern copyist.
strong pp. (various forms): _go_ (: _wo_) 196, _ygo_
(: _mo_) 349, _ydone_ (: _-none_) 76, _comen_ 29, _come_
181, _ycomen_ 203, _yborn_ 174, _bore_ 210.
infin. Note _aski_ (OE. _acsian_) 467 (App. § 13 vii).
PRONOUN 3 PERS.: fem. nom. _he_ 408, 446, _hye_ 337, beside _sche_
75, 77, &c.
pl. nom. _he_ (in rime) 185, _hye_ 91, beside _þai_ 32, 69,
&c.;
poss. _her_ 'their' 87, 413, 415; obj. _hem_ 69, &c.
NOUN: Note the plurals _honden_ 79, _berien_ 258.
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