214. drede not of, fear not for.
217. 'How he dared adventure himself, to prove his strength upon him that was so doughty a champion.'
224. whyl he couthe go, whilst he was able to go about.
230. a moche schrewe thou were, thou wast a great doer of mischief. Gamelyn retorts that he is now a more, i. e. a still greater doer of mischief. Moche is often used of size. In Havelok, l. 982, more than the meste = bigger than the biggest.
236. gonne goon, did go. Gonne is a mere auxiliary verb.
237. 'The champion tried various sleights upon Gamelyn, who was prepared for them.'
240. faste aboute, busily employed, trying your best. Cf. l. 785.
248. Spoken ironically, 'shall it be counted as a throw, or as none?'
249. whether, &c., whichever it be accounted.
253. of him, &c., he stood in no awe of him. Instead of our modern expression 'he stood in awe of him,' the M.E. expression is, usually, 'he stood awe of him,' suppressing in. It probably arose out of the very construction here used, viz. 'awe of him stood to him,' i. e. arose in him. However that may be, the idiom is common. Thus, in Barbour's Bruce, iii. 62:—