In 1789 and 1825 what are practically reprints of Bourne's version appeared in John Brand's History and Antiquities of the Town and Country of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Vol. [...] In the Notes that I append to the text I have sought to do three things : to justify the readings or emendations that I adopt; to illustrate by reference to other Middle English poetical texts the conventional character of our author's phraseology; and thirdly to indicate (as no previous editor has done) how in the details of its handling of the story of Noah. [...] French Mysteries the York cycle Avitus that the Angel and iiiia* Devil correspond to the Good Angel and the Vice of the Moislitiaa and so forth. [...] The fact is that the T. T.- occupies a middle position between the canonical and the apocryphal traditions; for though an Angel speaks to Noah he speaks as though he were the Almighty -Himself and Noah thinks he is face to face with God; see 11. [...] a seam is " a kind of nail or rivet for fastening the overlapping edges of a clinket-built boat the end of the nail being clinked on a rove " and that the ward is " usually associated with rove its counterpart." Several instances of seam and rove in conjunction are cited the earliest one being from 1406.
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