p. 42, l. 1181. _For tynding of his hand_ = for fear of (= _for_) the beating (blows) of his hand. Schoolboy slang still keeps the word ’_to tund_’ = to beat with something flat.--HALL. p. 42, l. 1193. On this expression Skeat treats in _Notes to P. Pl._, p. 3987, to which note I refer the reader. Cf. _Li B. Disc._, l. 130 f. (Ritson, _Rom._ II. p. 6): ‘Hys schon wer with gold ydyght And {kopeth} as a knyght.’ p. 43, l. 1198 f.: ‘None of them said a single word, But that Torrent had been right to do so as he had done.’ p. 43, l. 1211. There is an evident contradiction between this line and l. 1199. I suppose the word _waried_ to be wrong; but I am not able to give a fairly certain emendation of it. p. 44, l. 1228 f.: ‘The king had supposed he was dead, and, indeed, foolhardy he was to undertake an adventure like this.’ p. 45, l. 1268 f. This fight between the giant Cate and Torrent reminds us in some points of the combat between Guy and Colbrond. Like the old northern _holmganga_, both fights take place on an island, and in both cases the giant declines to sit on horseback, because he is too heavy; cf. _Guy of Warwike_, Edinburgh, 1840, l. 9940 ff.: ‘When þai had sworn and ostage founde, Colbrond stirt vp in þat stounde, To fiȝt he was ful felle. He was so michel and so vnrede, That no hors miȝt him lede, In gest as y you telle. So mani he hadde of armes gere, Vnneþe a cart miȝt hem bere, Þe Inglisse for to quelle.’ p. 45, l. 1270. _he_ instead of _him_ is remarkable; this personal construction, provided that it is right, would offer an analogue to _I am wo_ instead of _me is wo_; cf. Kölbing’s note to _Tristrem_, l. 245. p. 45, l. 1271 = l. 1546. p. 46, l. 1307. This line ought probably to run thus: ’_Sir Torent praid, as was his wonne._’