v. 1136. lay] See note, p. 219. v. 103.
v. 1139. bokis] i. e. books.
v. 1143. poynted] i. e. appointed.
v. 1144. presid] i. e. pressed.
v. 1150. ony] i. e. any.
v. 1154. wote wele] i. e. know well.
v. 1156. losende] i. e. loosened, loosed.
v. 1158. byse] Hearne in his Gloss. to Langtoft’s Chron. has “bis, grey, black,” with an eye, no doubt, to the line at p. 230,
“In a marble bis of him is mad story.”
and Sir F. Madden explains the word “white or grey” in his Gloss. to Syr Gawayne, &c., referring to the line “Of golde, azure, and byse” in Syre Gawene and The Carle of Carelyle, p. 204. But we also find “Byce a colour azur.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. xx. (Table of Subst.). “Scryueners wryte with blacke, red, purple, grene, blewe or byce, and suche other.” Hormanni Vulgaria, sig. Q i. ed. 1530. “Bize Blew Byze, a delicate Blew.” Holme’s Acad. of Arm., 1688. B. iii. p. 145.