i.e. 'She unwilling to take much aye doth heed'; 'which is nonsense' says Prof. Skeat. But the sentence is an example of ellipse, a figure which Chatterton affected a good deal, and fully expressed would run 'She--not willing to take much, ever doth heed not to take much', which would of course be intolerably clumsy but perfectly intelligible. 3. _Ælla_, line 467. Certis thie wordes maie, thou motest have sayne &c. Prof. Skeat 'can make nothing of this' and reads 'Certes thy wordes mightest thou have sayn'. A simple emendation of _maie_ to _meynte_ would give very good sense. 4. _Ælla_, line 489. Tyrwhitt has _sphere_--evidently a mistake in the MS. for _spere_ which he overlooked. It is not included in his errata. In the 1842 edition the meaning 'spear' is given in a footnote. 5. _Englysh Metamorphosis_. Prof. Skeat was the first to point out that this piece is an imitation of _The Faerie Queene_, Bk. ii, Canto X, stanzas 5-19. 6. _Battle of Hastings_, II, line 578. To the ourt arraie of the thight Saxonnes came Prof. Skeat explains _ourt_ as 'overt' and observes that it contradicts _thight_, which he renders 'tight'. But really there is not even an antithesis. _Ourt arraie_ is what a military handbook calls 'open order' and _thight_ is 'well-built', well put together (Bailey's Dictionary). The Saxons were well-built men marching in open order. VI. APPENDIX. BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF THE ARGUMENTS USED IN THE ROWLEY CONTROVERSY. (Taken mainly from Gregory's _Life of Chatterton_.) _Against Rowley_. 1. So few originals produced--not more than 124 verses. 2. Chatterton had shown (by his article on Christmas games, &c.) that he had a strong turn for antiquities. He had also written poetry. Why then should he not have written Rowley's poems? 3. His declaration that the _Battle of Hastings_ I was his own. 4. Rudhall's testimony. 5. Chatterton first exhibited the _Songe to Ælla_ in his own handwriting, then gave Barrett the parchment, which contained strange textual variations. 6. Rowley's very existence doubtful. William of Worcester, who lived at his time and was himself of Bristol, makes no mention of him, though he frequently alludes to Canynge. Neither Bale, Leland, Pitts nor Turner mentions Rowley. 7. Improbability of there being poems in a muniment chest. 8. Style unlike other fifteenth century writings. 9. No mediæval learning or citation of authority to be found in Rowley; no references to the Round Table and stories of chivalry. 10. Stockings were not knitted in the fifteenth century (_Ælla_). MSS. are referred to as if they were rarities and printed books common. 11. Metres and imitation of Pindar absurdly modern. 12. Mistakes cited which are derived from modern dictionaries (Tyrwhitt). 13. Existence of undoubted plagiarisms from Shakespeare, Gray, &c. _For Rowley_. 1. Chatterton's assertion that they were Rowley's, his sister having represented him as a 'lover of truth from the earliest dawn of reason.'