p. 75, l. 2152. The imperfect rhyme shows that there is something wrong in this line; it may be restored thus: ‘Loo, lordys good and hende.’ p. 75, l. 2153. _wyll haue_ has probably been inserted here from the following line; we ought to read _has_. p. 75, l. 2157. _Season for to hold_, i.e. ‘in order to hold court.’ But I don’t know another instance of _season_ with this meaning. p. 76, l. 2174. This line involves a contradiction to l. 2158 f. p. 76, l. 2185. _smote_ means the same as _caste_; cf. _King Horn_, ed. Wissmann, l. 1038: ‘And ankere gunne caste.’ The only question is, whether _ankere_ is allowed to be supplied or must be added; cf. l. 2203. p. 77, l. 2209-2214. The Sultan informs Torrent by messengers, that the inhabitants of the town are starving, evidently appealing to his generosity. Torrent answers him, that if they will lie here, _i.e._ leave the town, they are to have victuals enough. But the Sultan doesn’t accept this condition, and so the siege is continued. That seems to me to be the meaning of this half of the stanza. p. 77, l. 2216 f. _dede_ means here, and l. 2400, ‘exploit, battle.’ In the same way Saber, Beves’s uncle, once a year on a certain day fights against the Emperor; cf. _Sir Beues_, l. 2917 ff.: ’& eueri ȝer on a dai certaine Vpon þemperur of Almaine He ginneþ gret bataile take, Beues, al for þine sake.’ It agrees very well with the religious feelings of the Middle Ages, when they thought it a merit to fight against the heathens on Good Friday; cf. here l. 2230 ff. p. 77, l. 2224 ff. I am afraid there is something wrong in these lines; the copyist seems to mean, that Torrent didn’t bereave the inhabitants of their worldly goods, their treasures; then we must write _them_ for _it_. But what we really expect here is, that he leaves in the town some trustworthy men to keep it. Accordingly, the fault lies in _Worldely goodis_. Besides, l. 2224, _did wyn_, instead of _was yn_, would improve the rhyme. p. 77, l. 2232. _bryght_ is a rather odd epithet to _Sarȝins_. p. 78, l. 2233 ff. Fifteen years have past since Torrent began to fight against the infidels: he besieges the first town two years (cf. l. 2189), the second, six years (cf. l. 2206), the third, seven years (cf. l. 2230). Meanwhile, the education of a young man being finished at the age of fifteen (cf. Kölbing’s note to _Tristrem_, l. 287), his son had become just old enough to win his spurs. p. 78, l. 2240. I doubt whether _ordeyn_ can be allowed to stand without an object, such as _your folk_, or _your ships_; cf. _Robert of Glo’ster_, ed. Hearne, p. 139, l. 19: ‘He bigan to ordeyne ys folk, & to batail aȝen drow.’ p. 78, l. 2256: ‘Woebegone was she, that must see that,’ viz. that ‘le leopard took away her sone.’ p. 78, l. 2259 f. The meaning of these two lines is not quite perspicuous, and they may be corrupt; only this one thing is clear, that these two knights are Torrent and his son, who belong to different parties.