For al the oſt{is} my{ch}t he ſe al day, And the gret hoſt he ſaw quhar y{a}t it lay. 3484 [Footnote T77: MS. “owtray.” See Glossary.] [Headnote: THE POEM ABRUPTLY ENDS.] [Sidenote: Galiot also exhorts his men.] [A]nd galiot he can his folk exort, Beſeching them to be of good comfort, And ſich encont{er} [_The rest is wanting._] NOTES. [It may be observed, once for all, that the expression _in to_ repeatedly occurs where we should simply use _in_; and _one to_ is in like manner put for _unto_. The ending _-ith_ (for _-ed_) is frequent in the past tense, and _-it_ (also for _-ed_) in the past participle, though this distinction is not always observed. A still more noticeable ending is _-ing_ (for _-en_) in the infinitive. Observe further that the letters _v_, _u_, and _w_ are perfectly convertible, and used quite indiscriminately; so that _wpone_ means _upon_; _vthir_ means _uthir_, i.e., _other_: _our_ is put for _over_; _vounde_ signifies _wound_, etc.] Page 1, line 1. _The soft morow._ This nominative case has no verb. A similar construction occurs in the first lines of Books II. and III. 4. _Uprisith--his hot courss_, Upriseth in his hot course; _chare_, chariot. 6. _sent_, sendeth; so also _stant_, standeth, l. 326. 8. _valkyne_, waken. 10. _gyrss_, grass. 11. _assay_, assault. 13. _wox_, voice. 17. _frome I can_, from the time that I did. 18. _It deuit me_, it availed me. Jamieson gives “_Dow_, 1. to be able; A.S. _dugan_ (_valere_), to be able. 2. to avail; Teut. _doogen_.” P. 2, l. 23. _hewy ȝerys_, heavy years. 24. “Until that Phœbus had thrice gone through his full circuits” (lit. spheres). See the peculiar use of “pas” in other places. 26. “So, by such a manner, was my lot fated;” see l. 41. 28. _carving can_, did cut. 30. _be the morow_, by the morn. 36. _neulyngis_, newly, anew. 43. _walkith_, walked. 50. _I-clede_, y-clad, clad. Ch. has _clede_. 54. “No one within thought he could be seen by any wight outside.” P. 3, l. 56. _clos it_, enclose it; the MS. has _closit_. 57. _alphest._ This reading of the MS. is an error for _alcest_. See Chaucer, Prologue to Legend of good women, l. 511: “The gret{e} goodnesse of the quene Alceste, That turned was into a dayesye,” Alceste being the contracted form of Alcestis. 59. _Wnclosing gane_, did unclose. 60. “The bright sun had illumined the spray, and had updrawn (upwarped) into the lusty air the night’s soft (sober) and moist showers; and had made the morning soft, pleasant, and fair.” With this difficult passage we should compare l. 2477. 66. _Quhill_, until. 67. _till ony vicht_, to any wight. 69. _Bot gladness til the thochtful, euer mo_, etc., “But, as for gladness to the melancholy man, evermore the more he seeth of it, the more wo he hath.” 73. _represent_, represented (accented on the second syllable).