Cr1.3.129KD.3.127 Your father she felled throughe false byhest
C.3.128KD.3.127 yowre fader she felled thurgh fals biheste
O.3.127KD.3.127Ȝoure fadirO.3.127: OC2 alone lack the subject pronoun here; most B manuscripts have sche. felde þoruȝ fals biheest
R.3.119KD.3.127 Ȝoure fader heR.3.119:
He, "she." R's he, repeatedly deployed by the scribe in
this passage, is uncommon in form among the B manuscripts but not
substantive; OED2, s. v.
heo, and MED, s. v.
he (pron. 2), indicate that he is a variant for heo between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. feelde
þoruȝ faireR.3.119:
R's faire is an alpha variant. Cf. beta's fals. The
same line occurs in A, where the original reading is clearly the same as
in beta; however, three A witnesses, VHaMa, agree with alpha's
variant. beheste .
F.4.116KD.3.127Ȝowre fader she felde / þorhȝ hireF.4.116: BmBoCot read hire, which is otherwise unique to F. fayreF.4.116: Alpha is responsible for fayre. Beta manuscripts read false. heste.