1. Vinaver. The Tale of the Death of King Arthur, Oxford, 1955, p.x.

2. His essay ‘Sir Thomas Malory’, read to the English Association in 1922, is reprinted in Sir Thomas Wyatt and some collected studies, London, 1933. pp. 21–45.

by-leve: leave, ermytes sevyn: the seven hermits.
yit: still, to this present day. thore: there.
nevyn: (name) tell, assure, with mylde stevyn: in hushed voices.