#Spelling#: _ȝ_ (= _z_) is commonly written for final _s_: _bredeȝ_ 3, &c.; even when the final _s_ is certainly voiceless as in _forȝ_, 'force', 'torrent' 105, _(aȝ-)leȝ_ 'fear-less' 267. _tȝ_ is written for _s_ in monosyllabic verbal forms, where it indicates the maintenance of voiceless final _s_ under the stress (see rimes to _hatȝ_ 'has', VI 81): _watȝ_ 'was' 1, _gotȝ_ 'goes' 51, &c. In early Norman French _z_ had the sound _ts_, and so could be written _tz_, as in _Fitz-Gerald_ 'son (Mod. Fr. _fils_) of Gerald'. But later, French _(t)z_ fell together with _s_ in pronunciation, so that the spelling _tz_ was transferred to original _s_, both in fourteenth-century Anglo-French and in English. _qu-_ occurs for strongly aspirated _hw-_ in _quyte_ 'white' 20, _quat_ 'what' 111; but the alliteration is with _w_, not with _k(w)_, e.g. _And wyth ~qu~ettyng a~wh~arf, er he ~w~olde lyȝt_ 152. The spelling _goud_ 5, 50, &c., for _gōd_ 'good' may indicate a sound change. Notable is the carefully distinguished use of _ȝ_ in _ȝe_, but _y_ in _yow_, e.g. at ll. 23-6. * * * * * 3. _blessed hym_, 'crossed himself'; cp. XII _b_ 86. 4-6. 'He gives a word of praise to the porter,—<who> kneeled before the prince (i.e. Gawayn) <and who> greeted him with "God and good day," and "May He save Gawayn!"—and went on his way, attended only by his man, who, &c.' Clumsiness in turning direct speech into reported speech is a constant source of difficulty in Middle English. For the suppressed relative cp. note to XIII _a_ 36. 11. 'The clouds were high, but it was threatening below them.' _Halt_ for _halet_ pp. 'drawn up'. 16. 'The way by which they had to go through the wood was very wild.' Note the regular omission of a verb of motion after _shall_, _will_, &c. Cp. l. 64 _I wyl to þe chapel_; l. 332 _ȝe schal... to my woneȝ_, &c. 28. 'If you would act according to my wit (i.e. by my advice) you would fare the better.' 34. _Hector, oþer oþer_, 'Hector, or any other'. Hector is quoted as the great hero of the Troy story, from which, and from the legends of Arthur, the Middle Ages drew their models of valour. 35. 'He brings it about at the green chapel <that>', &c. 37. _dyngeȝ_: for MS. _dynneȝ_; Napier's suggestion. 41. 'He would as soon (lit. it seems to him as pleasant to) kill him, as be alive himself.' 43. 'If you reach that place you will be killed, I may warn you, knight.' Possibly _I_, _y_, has fallen out of the text after _y_ of _may_ (cp. VI 3), though there are clear instances in Old and Middle English where the pronominal subject must be understood from the context, e.g. I 168, VIII _a_ 237, 273. Note the transitions from plural _ȝe_ to singular _þe_ in ll. 42-3; and the evidence at l. 72 f. that _þou_ could still be used in addressing a superior. 44. _Trawe ȝe me þat_: _trow_ has here a double construction with both _me_ and _þat_ as direct objects.