p. 2, l. 73. «frith» means “forest,” or more correctly “enclosed wood.” The original sense of «forest» is “unenclosed wood” (see Diez, «Etymol. Wörterbuch», I. 185). Stratmann, «Dict.» p. 228, «s. v.» frið, seems to be right in connecting «frith» with O.E. «frið», «freoðo» = pax, tutela, saeptum. Morris, «Allit. Poems», Glossary, derives it from the Gaelic «frith». “«frith» is still used in Provincial English, meaning unused pasture-land, brushwood” (Halliwell). p. 2, l. 45. «yȝe» (O.E. êagum) : «flye» (O.E. flêogan). With regard to the power of «ȝ», see the note to l. 9, and cf. the spelling «eyen» in ll. 826, 1302, 2012. p. 2, l. 46. «tre» may be singular (O.E. «trêowe») as well as plural (O.E. «trêowum»). p. 2, l. 49. The following lines (49–53) correspond with ll. 94–100 of the «Destruction», which run as follows: “Li admirals d’Espaigne s’est ales desporter As puis sur Aigremore, avec li. M. Escler; La fist ses ours salvages a ses hommes berser. La veissies meint viautre, maint brachet descoupler, Payens et Ascopars as espees jouer, Coure par le marine et chacier maint sengler, Maint ostour veisies et maint falcon voler.” [p098] p. 2, l. 50. «shope», literally “shaped:” «he shope him», “he got himself ready, he planned, devised, intended.” The phrase is of frequent occurrence in Chaucer. p. 2, l. 52. «bawson», badger. For the use of badgers, see Skeat’s note to «Specimens of English Literature», p. 383. p. 2, l. 56. «Alaunts», a kind of large dogs of great strength and courage, used for hunting the wolf, the bear, the boar, &c. Cf. “Aboute his chare wente white alauntz Twenty and mo, as grete as any stere, To hunte at the lyoun or at the bere.” «Chaucer», ed. Morris, II. 66/1290. According to Diez («Etymol. Wörterb.», I. 12, «s. v.» “alano”) «alaunts» means “Albanian dogs.” «Lymmeris», “blood-hounds.” Halliwell quotes the following passage: “A dogge engendred betwene an hounde and a mastyve, called a lymmer or a mongrell.” «Lymmer» is the French «limier», O.Fr. «liemier», which etymologically means a dog that a courser leads by a lime, «i. e.» a thong or leash. «Lime» is the same word as French «lien», a leash; Latin «ligamen». «Lymmer» is preserved in Modern English «limer», a “lime-hound.” p. 2, l. 56. «Rache» and «brache» are both retained in the modern speech; «rache» seems to be particularly used in Scotland. “«Brache» is said to signify originally a bitch hound—the feminine of «rache», a foot-scenting dog” (Morris, «Gawayne», Gloss. p. 89). «Rache» is, according to Stratmann, O.Icel. «rakki»; «brache» is O.Fr. «braque», M.H.Ger. «braccho». Cf. also Halliwell’s Dict. «s. v.» “brach.” The French «racaille» is etymologically connected with «rache»; see Diez, «Etym. Wörterb.», II. 407.