L.3.63KD.3.63 That eury segge shal seyn · I am sustre of ȝowre hous
M.3.63KD.3.63Þat euerey segge shal sayn . I am sustre of ȝyowre hou..se
Cr1.3.64KD.3.63 That euery segge shall say I am syster of your house
W.3.63KD.3.63 That euery segge shal seye . I am suster of youre house
Hm.3.63KD.3.63 that euery segge schal seye · y am suster of ȝoure hous ·
C.3.63KD.3.63 That euery segge schal seye · I am suster of youre hous
G.4.63KD.3.63 that euery segge shall sey I am suvster off youvr houvse
O.3.63KD.3.63Þat euery segge schal seye I am sister of ȝoure hous
R.3.52KD.3.51.1 Þat I ne wolde make and amende it with of myne . These two lines are offered by alpha instead of eleven lines preserved in
beta (= KD3.52-62); it appears that the beta passage is archetypal but was somehow overlooked
or unavailable to alpha and that the two lines in their stead were introduced to patch the
resulting incoherence, adapted from two cognate lines in A (= Kane
3.50-51). Beta's cognate lines are as follows:
Wist I that quod þat womman I wolde nouȝt spare
For to be ȝowre
frende frere and faille ȝow neure
Whil ȝe loue lordes þat lechery haunteþ
And lakkeþ nouȝt ladis þat loueþ wel þe same
It is a frelete of flesche
ȝe fynde it in bokes
And a course of kynde wher-of
we komen alle
Who may scape þe sklaundre þe skaþe is sone amended
It is synne of
seuene sonnest relessed
Haue mercy quod Mede of men þat it haunte
And I shal
keure ȝowre kirke ȝowre cloystre do maken
Wowes do whitten and wyndowes
glasen.
R.3.54KD.3.63 Þat vch aR.3.54:
For alpha's vch a, beta reads eury. Alpha's reading is
supported by a majority of A witnesses, but beta's variant agrees with
C. segge schal IseR.3.54:
This form (cf. F's see) is an alpha reading that agrees with both Ax and Cx against beta's seye(n) (=
modern "say"). Ich am suster to ȝow alle .R.3.54: R's to ȝow alle is from alpha; beta reads of ȝowre hous. Both Ax and Cx
here support beta, the former by complete agreement, the latter by being an obvious revision
of the beta phrase (C = of ȝoure ordre).
F.4.55KD.3.63Þat ech aF.4.55: Alpha is responsible for ech a. Beta manuscripts have euery. segge sholde see / I am syster to ȝow alle.F.4.55: Alpha is responsible for "to ȝow alle." Beta manuscripts have "of youre house."