L.3.30KD.3.30 To loue ȝowL.3.30: LR alone read ȝow; most other B manuscripts have hem. lelli · and lordes to make
M.3.30KD.3.30To loue ...hemM.3.30: M's revised reading hem puts it into agreement with most B manuscripts. LR read ȝow; Bm reads hym. lelly . and lordes to make .
Cr1.3.30KD.3.30 To louen hem lellie and lordis to make
Cr1.3.31KD.3.30.1 To begge hem benifices , pluralities to haue
C.3.30KD.3.30 To loue hem Lealy · and lordes to make
R.3.30KD.3.30
To loue ȝowR.3.30: F and most beta manuscripts show hem here (M has been erased and overwritten to match this majority reading), but L
uniquely agrees with R's ȝow. Although two A
manuscripts (RaU) agree with the LR reading, it seems clear that Ax
supports the F/beta variant. However, the A majority continues in the
following line with third-person plural references (RU again dissenting), but a large cluster
of fairly reliable B manuscripts (MCOF, as well as the BmBoCot set) all
suddenly shift to second-person plural pronouns at this point, coming back into alignment
with LR. It appears likely, then, in the light of this attestational pattern, that LR are not
randomly agreeing in error but witnessing, at R3.30, what actually appeared in Bx, that the other B copies, by contrast, are merely
drifting along with the third-person references established in previous lines of this passage
and fail to notice, until the next line, the sudden shift in viewpoint caught here by the two
most careful B scribes. lely and lordes to make .