ywyss, certainly, l. 46.
[Notes]
[1.]? soneȝ [(return)] [2.]? MS. perhaps Angecye. [(return)] [3.]The s is rubbed: the word may be "onlesbury." [(return)] [4.]? MS. y-tan. [(return)] [5.]tombe [(return)] [6.]sepe, ? for seue, seven. It is p not x (six) in the MS. But as Arthur had 200,000, and Lucius only 400,124, sepe should mean two. [(return)] [7.]Þat ys to seye vpon a reess,
"Stynking Saxoun, be on pees." [(return)] [8.]Pughe's abridged Dictionary gives tau, v.a. be still; taw, s.m. and adj. quiet, silence, silent; paid, s.m. a cessation, quiet; bront, a. nasty, filthy, surly. Or, says Dr. Benj. Davies, you must take as equal to the modern Welsh wr, man, if it is not English; peyd is cease, pause; taw, be silent. [(return)]