Kydde

Kyd´de

imp.

imp. of Kythe, to show.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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The confirmation that the kings have found the object of their search, that Christ may be included in the "felawship" they have established, comes with the words of I Rex, who praises God "[p]at vs has kydde pus curtaysely / To wende by many a wilsom way, / And come to pis clene companye" (11.

"Whom seek ye, sirs?": the logic of searching in the York Herod and the Magi

Wist no wy of [pe] wone bot Waynor hir seluen-- Scho hade pe kepynge hir self of pat kydde wapyn, Off cofres enclosede pat to pe crown lengede, With rynges and relikkes and pe regale of Fraunce, That was fownden on sir Froll when he was feye leuyde.' (4196-08; emphasis added)

Even though it is kept in a 'wardrop' wherein are other items attained through conquest--such as the regalia of France --Arthur's statement that Guenevere herself 'hade pe kepynge of pat kydde wapyn' further removes Clarent from the realm of the masculine and violent.

Rewriting the chronicle tradition: the alliterative Morte Arthure and Arthur's sword of peace