145. _þys hyne_: the labourers. _This_, _these_ are sometimes used in early English to refer to persons or things that have not been previously mentioned, but are prominent in the writer's mind. Cp. XV _b_ 4, 19; and the opening of Chaucer's _Prologue_ to the _Franklin's Tale_ quoted in the note to II 13. 150. _pené_: in ME. the final sound developed from OFr. _-é_ (_e_) fell together with the sounds arising from OE. _-ig_, OFr. _ie_, &c. Hence _pené_ or _peny_ 186 (OE. _penig_); _reprené_ 184 for _repreny_; _cortaysé_ 120, 121, beside _cortaysye_ 72, 84, 96. The acute accent is editorial. 153. 'At midmorning the master goes to the market.' _totȝ_ (= _tǭs_) = _tās_, contracted form of _takes_ 'betakes himself'; cp. _tone_ = _taken_ V 91. The spelling and rimes with _o_ (which cannot develop normally from _ă_ lengthened in open syllables because this lengthening is everywhere later than the change _ā_ > _ǭ_) are usually explained as artificial. It is assumed that as Northern _bān_ corresponded to Midland _bǭn_, so from Northern _tá_ 'take' an unhistorical Midland _tǭ_ was deduced. But it is possible that the contraction of _tăke(n)_, and consequent lengthening _tá(n)_, is older than the ordinary lengthening _tăke_ > _táke_, and also older than the development of _ā_ to _ǭ_ in North Midland. 164. _I yow pay_: note the survival of the old use of the present to express future tense. 176. _þat at ȝe moun_, 'what you can'. _At_ as a relative appears usually to be from Old Norse _at_, with the same sense, and it is not uncommon in Northern English. But _þat at_ here is more likely the normal development of _þat þat_ > _þat tat_ (note to II 102) > _þat at_. 179. _sumoun_ is infin. not sb.: 'he had (them) summoned'; cp. note to VIII _a_ 79. 192. 'It seems to us we ought to receive more.' _Vus þynk_ is a remnant of the old impersonal construction of _þynceþ_ 'it seems'. In this phrase, probably owing to confusion with _we þynk(en)_, the verb often has no flexional ending; cp. l. 192. _vus oȝe_ is formed by analogy, the verb being properly personal; cp. _must vs_ XVII 292, 334. 200. _And_, 'If'. 205-8. _More_, which is necessary for the metrical form, is best taken as conj. 'moreover', 'further'; _weþer_ introduces a direct question (note to V 118). _louyly_ is perhaps miswritten for _lauly_ 'lawful', as the _Pearl-Gawayne_ group often show the converse _au_, _aw_ for normal _ou_, _ow_, e.g. _bawe_ for _bowe_, _trawþe_ for _trowþe_. 'Further, is my power to do what pleases me with my own lawful?' The meaning is fixed by Matthew xx. 15 'Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?' 212. _mykeȝ._ In the few recorded examples _mik_, _myk_ seems to mean 'an intimate friend'. Here it is used for the sake of rime in an extended sense 'chosen companion of the Lord'. 221 f. _Wheþer_, &c., 'Although I began <only> just now, coming into the vineyard in the eventide, <yet>', &c.