1184 ff. Cf. the story of Brian, ‘Lay.’ III., pp. 234-8: Brian, disguised as a palmer, enters the banqueting hall. Galarne, his sister, the queen, serves the guests to drink from a bowl. She recognizes Brian, and gives him a ring in token of recognition.
1185-6. _benche_ : _schenche_. Cf. ‘Lay.’ 14963-4: _& heo gon scenchen on þas kinges benche_. Cf. also ‘Beowulf,’ 1226-54.
1190. _so laȝe was in londe_. Cf. ‘Rich. C. de L.’: _Thenne as hit was lawe of land_ (Wissm.).
1191-2. _Hye drank of þe bere To knyt and to squiere_. An old Germanic custom. Cf. Wissmann, ‘Untersuchungen’ (‘Q. u. F.’ xvi. Strassb., 1876), p. 110.
1202. _brune_. Cf. Wissm., 1142 Note, also Kölbing (‘Engl. Stud.’ vi. 156). Wissmann takes _brun_ to be a collective referring to ‘beer.’ Kölbing, with greater probability, takes _brun_ to mean an ordinary brown horn, as distinguished from the _cuppe white_, which she has laid down, 1201.
1204. _glotoun_. The same phrase in Wolfram’s ‘Parz.’: _si wænde, er wære ein garzūn_ (Wissm.).
1206. _þing_, probably a mistake for _ring_. Cf. 479-80.
1240. _vnder wude liȝe_. Cf. ‘Lay’: _Ich eou wille leden forð to mine lauerd i þon wade rime þer he under rise lið_ (Wissm.).
1259. _bi seint gile_. Cf. Wissm. 1197 Note. Cf. also 829 Note.
1275. _custe_. Cf. ‘Erl of Tolous’ 401: _And kyssyde hyt fele sythe_. Cf. also 425 Note.
1281-2. _Heo feol on hire bedde_. Cf. ‘Erl of Tolous’ 871, 875: _He hent a knyfe with all his mayn ... And fell { in} swoun upon hys bedd_; also ‘Ipomydon’ 871 ff.: _Uppon hyr bedde she gan downe falle_. Cf. also 458, 792.
1282, H. _gredde_. Cf. ‘Beues’ 2151: _After Bonefas ȝhe gan grede_.
1297, L, H. _kuste_. Cf. ‘Lay.’ 15017-18, 5012-14.
1311-12. _bure_ : _ture_. Cf. ‘Havelok’ 2072-3: _I shal lene þe a bowr þat is up in þe heye tour_.
1321-2. _ywis_ : _blis_. Cf. ‘Lay.’ 7605-7 B: _Mochel was þe blisse þat hii makede mid iwisse_.
1336. _falsede_. Early instance of a hybrid word.
1398. _crouch_. Lat. _crucem_, OE. _cruce_.
1419. _kepe þis passage_. Cf. ‘Beowulf’ 230 ff.: _se þe holmclifu healdan scolde_, etc.
1420. _of age_. This phrase seems to have very nearly its modern meaning, and if so, is probably the earliest recorded instance. Cf. New Oxford Dict.
1422. _bi este_ C, _by weste_ L H. This confusion, here as elsewhere, seems due to changing points of view. _Westernesse_ is of course west to _Suddenne_, and both are east to _Yrlonde_.