“Escortrement commence Jhesu à reclamer: Glorieus sire pere, qui te laissas pener En la crois beneoite pour ton pule sauver, Garisiés hui mon cors de mort et d’afoler, Que je puisse Karlon mon message conter.” «Fierabras», ll. 4360–64. If now we consider that some lines back (l. 4093) the French poem expressively states that Richard seeing himself hard pressed by the Saracens, signed himself with the sign of the cross— “Lors a levé sa main, de Jhesu s’est signiés” an incident which at that moment is omitted in the «Sowdan»—we think ourselves entitled to regard this proof as not very convincing. p. 81, l. 2820. «Ganelon», one of Charlemagne’s officers, who by his treachery was the cause of the defeat of Roncesvaux, the death of Roland, etc., for which he was torn to death by horses. For [p131] several centuries his name was a synonymous word with traitor. «Ganelo» = Germ. «Wenhilo». p. 81, l. 2845. «Fremounde» cannot be the true reading, as it does not rhyme with «kinge». Besides «Fremounde» does not occur again in the poem. Perhaps we ought to read «Qwyntyne», as in l. 1298. In the corresponding passage of the French «Fierabras» (l. 4625) it is to St. Denis that Charles swears; cf. also «Syr Ferumbras», l. 4289. p. 82, l. 2850. «And» makes no sense. Read “«God».” p. 83, l. 2887. «gryse» : «assaye». We get a perfect rhyme if we read «gray» instead of «gryse». Halliwell, «s. v.» “gray,” has: “the skin or fur of a badger.” p. 83, l. 2891. As it stands, the line does not rhyme with l. 2893. The rhyme will be restored if we read: “«Lycence gete ye noone nere»,” or perhaps “«Lycence gete ye of me nere»,” «nere» meaning «ne’er», «never», as in «Guy», 10550 and 10716. p. 84, l. 2939. The name of the giantess is «Amiette» or «Amiote» in the other poems. p. 84, l. 2941. This line is too long; «as þikke» may be omitted. p. 84, l. 2942. «bydene», “immediately, all at once.” On the etymology see Zupitza’s note to «Guy», 2408. p. 85, l. 2981. «ayene» means “back.” So in «Genesis and Exodus», l. 1097: “And bodem hem and tagten wel ðat here non wente agen.” Again, l. 3267: “ðo quoðen he ‘wende agen, An israel folc lete we ben.’” p. 86, l. 3020. As it stands, this line does not scan well. Perhaps we may read «month» instead of «monthes», and «childre» instead of «children», and scan the line thus: Foúnd two chíldrẹ of séven month oólde. [Illustration: poetry scansion markup] p. 87, l. 3021. «thay» : «Normandy». The rhyme, though imperfect, cannot be objected to; but as the rhyme «e» : «y» («i») is frequently employed by our author (see «Introduction», p. xliv), and was of rather common use about that period (see Ellis, «Pronunciation», I. 271), we might incline to the supposition that «he» is the true reading. Cf. besides l. 2698. p. 87, l. 3034. «mene» makes no sense. Perhaps we ought to read: «mete», “food.”