Cr1.5.431KD.5.424 Syxe sythes or seuen , I forsake it wyth othes
C.5.436KD.5.424 Sixe sithes or seuene · I for-sake it with othes
R.5.437KD.5.424 Sixe sithes or seuene I forsake it witR.5.437:
R's spelling of with here is unique among the Piers Plowman
manuscripts and also fairly unusual in the Middle English corpus. The same spelling is found
extensively in Cursor Mundi; it also occurs several times in the Prose
Alexander (ca. 1440), once in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line
113 (where Andrew and Waldron emend it away), and once in Havelok the Dane,
line 2489. othes .