Le Morte d’Arthur

Endnotes

For this edition, glosses that only appear once in the work have been converted to endnotes. Any non-gloss endnotes are Pollard’s. ↩
Notoriously. ↩
Affiance, promise. ↩
Rightly. ↩
Entrusted. ↩
A short cuirass. ↩
Agreement. ↩
Quivered. ↩
Glanced back. ↩
Usage. ↩
Belonging to. ↩
Cluster. ↩
Belongs to. ↩
Fixed revenue. ↩
Embroidered. ↩
Most ignorant. ↩
Trimming. ↩
Vagabond. ↩
Grief. ↩
Sorrow. ↩
Embracing. ↩
Weaken. ↩
Akin to. ↩
Strange. ↩
Wreaked. ↩
Painted. ↩
Joint. ↩
Shove off. ↩
Capture. ↩
Liberality. ↩
Martial. ↩
Week. ↩
Misnumbered XX by Caxton. ↩
Actively. ↩
Treaty. ↩
Common. ↩
Assurance. ↩
Collar bone. ↩
Predecessors. ↩
Like, equal. ↩
Taxes. ↩
Determined. ↩
Forthwith. ↩
Expenses. ↩
Faith. ↩
Octave of a festival. ↩
Small boats. ↩
War vessels. ↩
Roared. ↩
Sound of wind. ↩
Fluttered. ↩
Cut to pieces. ↩
Made ready. ↩
Ranged for battle. ↩
Shook, trembled. ↩
Displays. ↩
Advantage. ↩
Disadvantage. ↩
Governor. ↩
Be able. ↩
Haughty. ↩
Like. ↩
Short coats. ↩
Hard rider. ↩
Lowered. ↩
That same. ↩
Anointing oil. ↩
Set in rest, couch. ↩
Clutched. ↩
Lover’s. ↩
Glen. ↩
Worsted. ↩
Painting. ↩
Pressing forward. ↩
Most courteous. ↩
Deed, story. ↩
Leashes, strings. ↩
Falcon. ↩
Bush, branch of a tree. ↩
Trunk of a tree. ↩
Branch. ↩
Complete. ↩
Complete. ↩
Gift. ↩
Readiest. ↩
Lubber. ↩
Descent. ↩
Notes on a horn. ↩
Champions. ↩
Machicolated, with holes for defence. ↩
Drew back. ↩
Loaves baked at the same time. ↩
Sailor’s cry. ↩
Breastplate of a horse. ↩
Saddle girths. ↩
Hewn to pieces. ↩
Paid for. ↩
Pledges. ↩
Away. ↩
Expended, bestowed. ↩
Printed by Caxton as part of chap. XXII. ↩
Desolate. ↩
Handbreadth. ↩
Lumps. ↩
In Caxton’s edition this chapter is misnumbered XXVI, setting the numeration wrong to the end of the book. ↩
Messengers sent to prepare lodgings. ↩
So W. de Worde; Caxton “that by.” ↩
Watches. ↩
Path. ↩
So W. de Worde; Caxton “me.” ↩
Comforted, cheered. ↩
So W. de Worde; Caxton “bee.” ↩
Officer who set on dishes and tasted them. ↩
Printed by Caxton as part of chap. II. ↩
Possessed. ↩
Swung. ↩
Known. ↩
Casually. ↩
Pass. ↩
Earnest money. ↩
Printed by Caxton as part of chap. XXVI. ↩
Untwisted, unbound. ↩
Bolted. ↩
Leper house. ↩
Limb from limb. ↩
Deny. ↩
Broke up. ↩
Discomfort. ↩
The part of the helmet which shaded the eyes. ↩
Raging. ↩
Undertook. ↩
Over wide space. ↩
Make way. ↩
Pushed. ↩
Printed by Caxton as part of chap. IV. ↩
Like a gentleman. ↩
Sorely wound. ↩
Shorten. ↩
Ill-luck, mishap. ↩
Thicket of the wood. ↩
In watch for. ↩
Thoughtlessly. ↩
Sauntering. ↩
Cheeks. ↩
Reward. ↩
Devices, wiles. ↩
“The evening afore,” W. de Worde. ↩
Company. ↩
Nearly. ↩
Oil. ↩
Changed. ↩
Foolish. ↩
Jested. ↩
Stole. ↩
Describe. ↩
Mounted. ↩
Without a share. ↩
Barking, yelping. ↩
Day for settling disputes. ↩
Covered. ↩
Desire. ↩
Discomfort. ↩
Redeem. ↩
Practised. ↩
Cleverly. ↩
Betrothed. ↩
Testicles. ↩
Uncovered. ↩
Certainly. ↩
Afraid. ↩
Pennon, streamer. ↩
Note of recall. ↩
Barking. ↩
Foolish. ↩
“Y-wis” (certainly), Caxton; “ye-wis” (truly), W. de Worde. ↩
Breathing holes. ↩
Along. ↩
Deceitful. ↩
Reared. ↩
Sideways. ↩
Slantwise. ↩
Needs, on your own compulsion. ↩
With the head covered. ↩
Garments. ↩
Except. ↩
Except. ↩
Embraced. ↩
Faded. ↩
Fat deer. ↩
Without reward. ↩
Aiming. ↩
Arrowheads. ↩
Command. ↩
Revived. ↩
Skin. ↩
Ermine. ↩
Twisted. ↩
Back part of knee-joint. ↩
Overtake. ↩
Enclosed. ↩
Sparrowhawk. ↩
Float. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Rich and poor. ↩
Retract. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Omitted by Caxton, supplied from W. de Worde. ↩
Thrust. ↩
Caxton “Yf,” for which “Yea” seems the easiest emendation that will save the sense. ↩
Covetousness. ↩
Deceit. ↩
Plundering. ↩
Misfortune. ↩
Soft, tender. ↩
Partition. ↩
Spurring. ↩
Semblance. ↩
Drowned. ↩
Wedge or spike of iron. ↩
Because of. ↩
Beseech. ↩
So W. de Worde; Caxton “but.” ↩
Roots. ↩
Overcome. ↩
Hauberk with leggings attached. ↩
Uppermost. ↩
Pleased, content. ↩
In pain. ↩
Alleviation. ↩
Unbeliever. ↩
Cleverest. ↩
Courteous. ↩
On his nose. ↩
Stick, stem. ↩
Canopy. ↩
Sprinkled. ↩
Hurtful. ↩
Disease. ↩
Looked carefully at. ↩
Preserve. ↩
Room. ↩
Steps. ↩
Came across. ↩
Timber. ↩
Wafer, Host. ↩
Thursday of Holy Week. ↩
So W. de Worde; Caxton “of them.” ↩
Shore. ↩
Chests. ↩
Unstable. ↩
Privities, secret interviews, recesses. ↩
Fornicator. ↩
Forbid. ↩
Sullied, dishonoured. ↩
Immediately. ↩
Evil design. ↩
Alleviation. ↩
Offering at Mass for the dead. ↩
Bubble. ↩
Hunting term for trap, point of ambush. ↩
Kept up with. ↩
Hunting term for taking the water. ↩
Cast about. ↩
Obliterate. ↩
Defeated, shamed. ↩
Lecherous. ↩
Splashed. ↩
Passages. ↩
A man turned into a wolf by magic. ↩
Believe. ↩
Scattered. ↩
Agreement. ↩
Domineered over. ↩
Vanguard. ↩
Fierce, furious. ↩
Be grateful. ↩
Attack. ↩
Girdles. ↩
Jewels. ↩
Cause. ↩
Steal away. ↩
Harm ↩
Pursue. ↩
Yielded. ↩
Quick movement. ↩
On the inside. ↩
Adroitly. ↩
Haughtiest. ↩
Messages. ↩
Inveterate. ↩
Beset. ↩
Platform, scaffold. ↩
Trumpets. ↩
Hand-guard of a spear. ↩
Ripple. ↩
Town in Brittany famous for its cloth. ↩
Haughtiness. ↩
Dwindled. ↩
Voice. ↩
Anointed. ↩
Authors, poets. ↩