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THE COURT OF VENVS (431-521).
431. . . . with all deuoir he docht=-1 with all the duty with which
he was capable.’ The form douthe occurs in ‘ Havelok ’:—
Ne non ofer fish fat douthe
His meyne feden with he[r] mouthe; II. 833, 834.
See Jamieson, s. v. “dow.”
479. . . . tinsall of life and land—' loss of life and land.’ Barbour
uses the word several times. Here is one example :—
That for his tynsale wes sary,
And menit his men that he had slane: Bruce, v. 11. 450, 451.
It is found in ‘ How the Good Wife taught her Daughter ’:—
Leiff thi awin will and tak consale,
Or it sail turn the to tynsale ; 11. 213, 214.
And in Lauder :—
And tinsall of thair houshaldis, baimis, and wyues.
—Ane Godlie Tractate, 1. 78.
In this Consistis, withouttin faill,
Boith the wynning and tinsaill
Of jour haill Regioun and ryng; Tractate, 11. 381-383.
482. And sa beliue but mair proces, &c. = ‘ and thus immediately,
without further course of action and delay.’ Lauder uses the word
process in the same way :—
So, for jour wrang, but proces more,
Je sail tyne heuin and wardlie glore; Tractate, 11. 137, 138.
491. 6’a=‘ if.’ In 1. 501, sa that is used for if.
521. . . . I had reuth andpietie = ' I had compassion and pity.’ See
iv. 1. 434. Chaucer has the same expression :—
To them they yede for routhe, and pite.
— The Flower and the Leaf, iv. p. 251.
Reuth is used in ‘ Meditations on the Supper of our Lord ’:—
Now derwurfe sone, haue reufe on me ; I. 832.
In ‘The Digby Mysteries’:—
Whan I was hevy, thu conforted me be ruthe ; p. 149, 1. 316.
In ' Sir Isumbras’:—
The sowdane than gret rewthe thoghte ; 1. 264.
‘ Complaynte of a Loveres Lyfe ’:—
Wherof I had routhe ; vol. viii. p. ro.
It is found in ‘ The Kingis Quair,’ st. 137. And in Lauder :—
Je thole thame de but reuth ; Godlie Tractate, 1. 459.
The verb rew, to compassionate, is found in ‘Havelok’:—
Sum-del bigan him forto rewe; 1. 497.