As it frequently happens that it is highly desirable to be able to recover speedily the whereabouts of a note on some particular word or subject, an Index to the Notes is appended to this volume. [xxvii]
At p. xxiv of vol. iv, a list of Errata is given, many of which are of slight importance. Much use of this volume, for the purpose of illustration, has brought to my notice a few more Errata, six of which, here marked with an asterisk, are worth special notice.
P. 19. A 636. _For_ Thanne _read_ Than P. 37. A 1248. The end-stop should be only a colon. P. 41. A 1419. The end-stop should be only a semicolon. P. 138. B 295. _For_ moevyng _read_ moeving Pp. 151, 155. B 724, 858. _For_ Constable _read_ constable * P. 165. B 1178. _For_ be _read_ he P. 187. B 1843. The end-stop should (perhaps) be a semicolon. P. 232. B 2865. _For_ haue _read_ have P. 259. B 3670. The end-stop should be a comma. * P. 275. B 4167. _For_ Than _read_ That * P. 348. D 955. _For_ which _read_ whiche P. 349. D 1009. _For_ Plighte _read_ Plight P. 384. D 2152. _Dele 'at beginning._ * P. 398. E 290. MS. E _has_ set (= setteth, _pr. s._); _which scans better than_ sette, _as in other_ MSS. P. 409. E 656. _For_ Left _read_ Lefte [though the _e_ is elided]. * P. 462. F 56. _For_ Him _read_ Hem P. 546. G 1224. _Dele_ the final comma. * P. 608; end of l. 14. _For_ power or (_as in_ E.) _read_ power of (_as in the rest_). P. 620: ll. 16, 17. _Dele the commas after_ receyven _and_ folk
P. 73; l. 10 from bottom. _Dele_ comma after Thornton.
P. 119; l. 1. _For_ l. 393 _read_ l. 3931.
P. 262; note to C 60. Cf. Ayenbite of Inwyt, p. 205:--'Ac the greate metes and thet stronge wyn alighteth and norisseth lecherie, ase oyle other grese alighteth and strengtheth thet uer' [i. e. the fire]. This passage occurs quite close to that quoted in the note to A 4406. Probably Chaucer took both of these from the French original of the Ayenbite. Cf. p. 447.
P. 450. The note to G 1171 has been accidentally omitted, but is important. The reading should here be _terved_, not _torned_; and again, in G 1274, read _terve_, not _torne_. The Ellesmere MS. is really right in both places, though _terued_ appears as _terned_ in the Six-text edition. These readings are duly noted in the Errata to vol. iv, at p. xxvi. The verb _terve_ means 'to strip,' or 'to roll back' the edge of a cuff or the like. The Bremen Wörterbuch has: '_um tarven, up tarven_, den Rand von einem Kleidungstücke umschlagen, das innerste auswärts kehren.' Hence read _tirueden_ in Havelok, 603; _teruen of_ in the Wars of Alexander, 4114; _tyrue_ in Allit. Poems, ed. Morris, B. 630; and _tyruen_ in Gawain and the Grene Knight, 1921.