34. Hector, oþer oþer, 'Hector, or any other'. Hector is quoted as the great hero of the Troy story, from which, and from the legends of Arthur, the Middle Ages drew their models of valour.
35. 'He brings it about at the green chapel <that>', &c.
37. dyngeȝ: for MS. dynneȝ; Napier's suggestion.
41. 'He would as soon (lit. it seems to him as pleasant to) kill him, as be alive himself.'
43. 'If you reach that place you will be killed, I may warn you, knight.' Possibly I, y, has fallen out of the text after y of may (cp. VI 3), though there are clear instances in Old and Middle English where the pronominal subject must be understood from the context, e.g. I 168, VIII a 237, 273. Note the transitions from plural ȝe to singular þe in ll. 42-3; and the evidence at l. 72 f. that þou could still be used in addressing a superior.
44. Trawe ȝe me þat: trow has here a double construction with both me and þat as direct objects.
56. 'That I shall loyally screen you, and never give out the tale that you fled for fear of any man that I knew.'
64. for chaunce þat may falle, 'in spite of anything that may happen'.
68-9. 'Though he be a stern lord (lit. a stern man to rule), and armed with a stave'. The short lines are built more with a view to rime than to sense.
72-4. 'Marry!' said the other, 'now you say so decidedly that you will take your own harm upon yourself, and it pleases you to lose your life, I have no wish to hinder you.'