294-5. 'And truly you seem to me the most faultless man that ever walked on foot.' The ME. construction, _on þe fautlest_, where _on_ 'one' strengthens the superlative, is found in Chaucer, _Clerk's Tale_ 212: _Thanne was she oon the faireste under sonne,_ and still survives in Shakespeare's time, e.g. _Henry VIII_, II. iv. 48 f. _one the wisest prince_. It has been compared with Latin _unus maximus_, &c. In modern English the apposition has been replaced, with weakening of the sense: _one_ of _the (wisest)_, &c. 298. _yow lakked... yow wonted_: impersonal, since _yow_ is dative, 'there was lacking in you'. 319. 'Let me win your good-will', 'Pardon me'. 331. I have transposed MS. #of# _þe grene chapel_ #at# _cheualrous knyȝteȝ_, because such a use of _at_ is hardly conceivable. A copyist might easily make the slip. Cp. l. 35. 344. _Boþe þat on and þat oþer_: Besides the Green Knight's young wife, there was a much older lady in the castle, 'yellow', with 'rugh, ronkled chekeȝ', and so wrapped up _Þat noȝt watȝ bare of þat burde bot þe blake broȝes, Þe tweyne yȝen, and þe nase, þe naked lyppeȝ, And þose were soure to se, and sellyly blered._ _Gawayne_ ll. 961-3. 350-1. 'And David afterwards, who suffered much evil, was <morally> blinded by Bathsheba.' 352-6. 'Since these were injured with their wiles, it would be a great gain to love them well, and not believe them—for a man who could do it [cp. note to XI _b_ 209]. For these (Adam, Solomon, &c.) were of old the noblest, whom all happiness followed, surpassingly, above all the others that lived beneath the heavens.' _mused_ 'thought' is used for the rime, and means no more than 'lived'. ll. 354-6 amount to 'above all other men'. VI #Dialect#: West Midland, like _Gawayne_. The metre occasionally gives clear evidence that final flexional _-e_ of the original has not always been preserved in the extant MS., e.g. _Þaȝ cortaysly ȝe carp<ė> con_ 21. The most noteworthy verbal forms are: pres. ind. 1 sg. _byswykeȝ_ 208 (once only, in rime); 2 sg. _þou quyteȝ_ 235; 3 sg. _leþeȝ_ 17; _totȝ_ (= _tǭs_ = _tās_ = _takes_) 153 (note). 1 pl. _we leuen_ 65; _we calle_ 70; 3 pl. _temen_ 100 (and cp. ll. 151-2); _knawe_ 145; but _þay gotȝ_ 150, _pykeȝ_ 213 (both in rime). imperative pl. _dyspleseȝ_ 62; _gos_, _dotȝ_ 161. pres. p. _spornande_ 3. pp. _runne_ (in rime) 163, beside _wroken_ 15, &c. Characteristic Western forms are _burne_ 37 (OE. _beorn_); _vrþe_ 82 (OE. _eorþe_). * * * * * 5. 'Like bubbling water that flows from a spring', i.e. his wild words rise from a heart that can no longer contain its affliction. 11-12. 'You, who were once the source of all my joy, made sorrow my companion.'