947-8, H. _stounde_ : _grounde_. Cf. ‘Rich. C. de L.’ 4537-8: _Soone, withinne a lytyl stounde The moste party yede to grounde_. 952. _fader_. OE. gen. sing. Cf. 116 ‘C. H.’ 964 ff. Cf. the similar offer made to Brennes by Sequin, ‘Lay.’ 4919 ff. 974. _lofte_. In the sense ‘women’s apartments’ seems to be of Norse origin. Cf. Skeat, Etymol. Dict., also Wissmann, 928 Note. Cf. also 1050 L. It seems probable that the women’s apartments were in the ‘tower.’ Cf. also Kölbing (Engl. Stud. vi. 155). 1002-3. _dude_ seems to be used in the modern, intensive sense, and not as ‘cause to’ or ‘put.’ 1010-11. For similar situations cf. ‘Guy of W.’ 1315-16: _On huntyng Gye went on a day, He mett a palmer by the way_. Also ‘Erl of Tolous’ 937-8: _He rode on huntyng on a day, A marchand mett he be þe way_. Cf. also ‘Beues’ 1300 ff. 1021-2. _wedde_ : _bedde_. Cf. ‘Lay.’ 31126-7 B: _he þat maide weddede, and nam hire to his bedde_. 1024, H. _enimis_. Perhaps trace of OF. nom. sing. ending in _-s_, due to French scribe. Cf. 123 Note. 1034. _bidere_, error for _bitere_ (?). 1056. _wringe_. Cf. ‘Ipomydon’ 876: _Hir handes fast gan she wrynge_. 1068. _linne_. Hortative (?). 1073. _kniȝt mid þe beste_. A common phrase. Cf. ‘Lay.’ 20449, etc. 1077-8. _sonde_ : _londe_. Cf. ‘Lay.’ 28676-7: _and sende his sonde wide ȝeond his londe_. 1089. _striken_. Stratmann suggests ‘strip.’ 1091-2, H. _yronge_ : _ysonge_. Cf. ‘Lay.’ 29441-2: _no belle irungen. no masse isunge._ 1093. _word bigan to springe_. Cf. ‘Havel.’ 959: _of him ful wide þe word sprong_. ‘Lay.’ 26242: _Wel wide sprong þas eorles word_ (Wissmann). Also ‘King of Tars.’ 1065: _þe word wel wide sprong_. ‘Lyb. Disc.’ 264 ff.: _Hys name ys spronge wide_. 1102. _sprunge of stone_. The simile is one of quickness that of a spark from the stone in striking a light, like modern “quick as a flash.” Cf. _He sprange als any spark one glede_, ‘Sir Isumbras,’ 451. 1103-4. _mette_ : _grette_. A very common rime. Cf. ‘Lay.’ 31041-2: _þer he hine mette and fæire hine grette_. ‘Beues’ 2051-2: _þar wiþ a palmer he mette, And swiþe faire he him grette_. 1117. _nolde_. Cf. ‘Lay’ 28900: _and seiden þat he nolde_. 1118 L. _ispused wiþ golde_. Reference, probably, to an old custom of buying the bride. 1121. _Myd strencþe_. Cf. ‘Squire of L. D.’ 443 (Wissmann). 1132 ff. _chaungi wede_. Compare with this ‘Beues’ 2051 ff., where Beues meets a palmer, learns from him the news, exchanges garments with him, and in disguise goes to see Iosiane after an absence of seven years. Disguises are an almost universal feature of these mediaeval tales. Cf. Brian’s disguise in ‘Pierre de Langt.’ (Rolls Series), pp. 248-350. Cf. also disguises in ‘Guy of W.’, ‘Layamon’ (17637 ff.), ‘Ypomydon,’ ‘Rich. C. de L.,’ ‘Isumbras,’ etc. They are frequent in Germanic story from the stories of Thor down. 1134. _sclauyne_. Cf. ‘Rich. C. de L.’ 611-12: _with pyke and with sclavyn, As palmers were in Paynim_.