Readings for line KD.13.431

L.13.426KD.13.431
Ac clerkes þat knowen holywryt · shulde kenne lordes
M.13.423KD.13.431
Ac clerkes þat knowen holy writ . sholde kennen lordes
Cr1.13.425KD.13.431
And clarkes that knowen holy wryte , shold ken lords
W.13.425KD.13.431
Ac clerkes þat knowen holy writ . sholde kenne lordes
Hm.13.423KD.13.431
ac clerkes þat knowyn holy wrytt · schuldyn kenne lordes ·
C.13.424KD.13.431
And clerkes that knowen haly writ · sholde kenne lordes
G.14.426KD.13.431
but clerkes þat knowe wolyG.14.426: For forms in <who>- for earlier <ho>- (of which G's reading woly is presumably a development), see Wyld, Modern Colloquial English, 307, and see also note to G.18.208. wrytte sholde kenne lordes
O.13.423KD.13.431
AsO.13.423: OC2 alone have As; most B manuscripts have Ac. clerkis þat knowen holy writ  schulden kenne lordis
R.13.450KD.13.431
Ac clerkes þat knowethR.13.450: R's inflectional suffix (-eth) is unique among B witnesses; the others show -e(n). Although MSS P and F in the C tradition agree with the majority of B copies on this small issue — i.e., knowe(n) —, the Russell-Kane lemma leaves no doubt that a majority of both sub-families of C agree with R's reading. holy writ  schuld kennen lordes .
F.10.445KD.13.431
But Clerkys þat knowe holy writ / sholde kennyn so lordis.