665-6 “As they did not fear me, I could do them much more harm.”
BOOK VII.
2 will of wayn. “Wild of weening” or thought—i.e., quite at a loss. See on II. 471.
10 yhe. Ye from an inferior to a superior; you on the part of the latter, as in line 15.
17 I haf herd, etc. In a note to the Wallace, Bk. v. 25, Jamieson cites from “Bellenden, after Boece,” a long passage on bloodhounds, in which this occurs: “And thocht the thevis oftymes cors the wattir, quhair thai pas, to caus the hound to tyne the sent of thaym and the guddis, yit he serchis heir and thair with sic deligence, that be his fut he fyndis baith the trace of the theiff and the guddis” (Description of Albion, chap. xi.). See on VI. 484.
48 “And he is a good distance off by this time.”
90 price and loving. “Honour and praise.” Cf. 99, 294.
103 war bodyn all evynly. “Were armed equally well,” equipped for fighting.
132 bryng hym than of daw. “Bring him then out of day”—i.e., kill him. Cf. on Bk. VI. 650.
163 housis. MSS. give “hous” with flourished “s,” here expanded to “is.” See Preface 3.