...from the contemporaneous use of a saying, of which the origin is too obscure to assist our inquiry. In regard to the author of these poems much uncertainty...person intimately versed in the gentle science of wode-crafi could so minutely describe the various sports of the chase, nor could any but an educated...

...present volume, as now preserved to us in the manuscript, are not in the Scottish dialect, but he says " there is sufficient internal evidence of their being...differing from those used by writers beyond the Tweed." Now, with regard to this subsequent transcription of the poems from the Scotch into a Midland dialect,...

...Gawayne and the Green Knight,' which the editor regards as of Northern origin, although the manuscript " appears to have been written by a scribe of the midland counties." He goes on to say that the individual who has the best claim to be recognised as the author is Huchown...

...in it had originally been composed in Scotland, then transmitted to and written down in the south: "There is sufficient internal evidence of their being...differing from those used by writers beyond the Tweed" (301). This is precisely the argument made by Scott for Sir Tristrem and by Laing for other poems....