1662. This is one of the closest parallels with the ballad,
‘And she that told the nowe, sir Arthoure,
I pray to god I maye se her bren on a fyre.’
Weddynge of Syr Gawene, 475.
1676. what: cp. the use of ‘quoy’ in French, e.g. Mir. 1781.
1677. caste on his yhe, ‘cast his eye upon.’
1714. ‘He must, whom fate compels.’ The words ‘schal,’ ‘scholde’ are regularly used by Gower to express the idea of destiny, e.g. iii. 1348, iv. 92, 377.
1722. ‘Placing her as he best could.’
1727. Bot as an oule &c. So in Chaucer,
‘And al day after hidde him as an owle,