338. _þou bus_, 'you ought'; _bus_, a Northern contracted form of _behoves_, is here used as a personal verb, where _þe bus_, 'it behoves thee', is normal. See note to XVII 196. 360. _moste_: read _maste_ to rime with _taste_. 371. _Of þis comyng_: the Towneley MS. reading _of Thi commyng_ is possible. 378-80: Corrupt. The copy from which the extant MS. was made seems to have been indistinct here. The Towneley MS. has: _Suffre thou neuer Thi sayntys to se The sorow of thaym that won in wo, Ay full of fylth, and may not fle_, which is more intelligible and nearer Psalm xvi. 10: _Nec dabis sanctum tuum videre corruptionem._ 405. _louyng_: 'praise', cp. IV _a_ 24 (note). XVII #Dialect#: Late Yorkshire. #Vocabulary#: Northern are _then_ 108 (note), and _at_ 'to' 235. #Inflexions#: VERB: pres. ind. 2 sg. _thou spekis_ 206. 3 sg. _ligis he_ 84; _he settis_ 92; _(God) knowes_ 202. 1 pl. _we swete or swynk_ 195. 2 pl. _ye carp_ (in rime) 360. 3 pl. _thay ryn_ (in rime) 277, 357; beside _has_ 345, _renys_ 351. pres. p. _liffand_ 73, _bowand_ 76, _wirkand_ 120 (all in rime); beside _lifyng_ 47, 48; _standyng_ 416; _taryyng_ 497. strong pp. _rysen_ 442; _fon_ 'found' 503 is a Northern short form. PRONOUN 3 PERS.: sg. fem. nom. _she_ 186; pl. _thay_ 27; _thare_ 75; _thaym_ 31. (MS. _hame_ 143 is miswritten for _thame_.) #Sounds#: OE. _ā_ appears as _ǭ_ in rime: _old_: _cold_: _mold_ (OE. _móld_) 60-2, and probably _dold_: _old_ 266-70; _sore_: _store_: _therfor_: _more_ 91-4; but elsewhere remains _ā_, e.g. _draw_ (OE. _drăgan_): _knaw_ 245-6. The spelling with _o_ is the commoner. See notes on _emong_ 400; _grufe_ 463. #Spelling#: Note the Northern spellings with _i_, _y_ following a vowel to indicate length: _moyne_ 'moon' 6, _bayle_ 'bale' 26, _leyde_ = _lede_ 48; and conversely _farest_ 'fairest' 79, _fath_ 'faith' 330. * * * * * The maritime associations of the play of _Noah_ made it a special favourite with the Trinity House guild of master mariners and pilots at Hull; and some of their records of payments for acting and equipment are preserved, although the text of their play is lost (Chambers, _Mediaeval Stage_, vol. ii, pp. 370-1):