‘Crystyabelle as whyte as fome,’
where the Percy Folio MS. reads:
‘Christabell that was as faire as sunn;’
Chronicle of England, l. 75 f.:
‘Ant nomeliche to thy lemmon,
That ys wyttore then the fom.’
[St. 5]
p. 2, [l. 50]. The alteration of And and bee into An and see seemed necessary; sayment is like Fr. essaiement, Lat. exagimentum.
p. 3, [l. 59]. Cf. [l. 1216 f.] and The Lyfe of Ipomydon, ed. Kölbing, l. 1795:
‘If thou hyr haue, thou shalt hyr bye.’