_anno_ To the minstrels, 6d. 1485. To Noah and his wife, 1s. 6d. To Robert Brown playing God, 6d. To the Ship-child, 1d. To a shipwright for clinking Noah's ship, one day, 7d. 22 kids for shoring Noah's ship, 2d. To a man clearing away the snow, 1d. Straw for Noah and his children, 2d. Mass, bellman, torches, minstrels, garland &c., 6s. For mending the ship, 2d. To Noah for playing, 1s. To straw and grease for wheels, ¼d. To the waits for going about with the ship, 6d. 1494. To Thomas Sawyr playing God, 10d. To Jenkin Smith playing Noah, 1s. To Noah's wife, 8d. The clerk and his children, 1s. 6d. To the players of Barton, 8d. For a gallon of wine, 8d. For three skins for Noah's coat, making it, and a rope to hang the ship in the kirk, 7s. To dighting and gilding St. John's head, painting two tabernacles, beautifying the boat and over the table, 7s. 2d. Making Noah's ship, £5. 8s. Two wrights a day and a half, 1s. 6d. A halser [i.e. hawser] 4 stone weight, 4s. 8d. Rigging Noah's ship, 8d. * * * * * 10. _is_: read _es_ for the rime. Cp. note to I 128-9. 42. _and sythen_: MS. _in sythen_. Cp. note to VI 36. 49. _syn_: 3 pl. because _euery liffyng leyde_ is equivalent to a plural subject 'all men'. 52. _coueteis_: MS. _couetous_. 56. _alod_: a shortened form of _allowed_, apparently on the analogy of such words as _lead_ infin., _led_ pa. t. and pp. For a parallel see note to I 254-5. 57. _Sex hundreth yeris and od_: the _od_ thrown in to rime, as Noah was exactly 600 years old according to Genesis vii. 6. 66. _and my fry shal with me fall_: 'and the children <that> I may have' (?). 88. _for syn sake_: 'because of sin'. Until modern times a genitive preceding _sake_ usually has no _s_, e.g. _for goodness sake_. The genitive of _sin_ historically had no _s_ (OE. _synne_), but the omission in a Northern text is due rather to euphony than to survival of an old genitive form. Cp. _for tempest sake_ I 177. 108. _then_: 'nor', a rare Northern usage, which is treated as an error here in England and Pollard's text, though it occurs again at l. 535. Conversely _nor_ is used dialectally for _than_. 109. _Hym to mekill wyn_: 'to his great happiness'. 137. _take_: 'make', and so in l. 272. 167-71. _knowe_: _awe_. The rime requires _knāwe_ or _ǭwe_. 191. 'The worse <because> I see thee.' 196. _what thou thynk_: 'what seems to you best', 'what you like'; _thou thynk_ for _thee thynk_—the verb being properly impersonal; see notes to XVI 338 and VI 192.