knawe

And [??]erfore alle the Jewes [??]at dwellez in diuerse partys of [??]e werld lerez for to speke Hebrew for [??]ai trowe [??]at [??]ir Iewes [??]at er enclosed amanges [??]e hilles schalle come oute and schalle knawe [??]am by [??]aire speche [??]at [??]ai er Jews as [??]ai er.

They take up this charge with vigor, for when they finish deliberating, they resolve that they, along with their children, will 'Go synge before, pat men may knawe / To pis graunte we all' (264-5).

The Mortificacio Cristi opens with Pilate's warning that those who are guilty of rebellion or treason will be treated like Jesus, whose fate nevertheless does in fact make him uneasy since "cause non in hym cowthe [he] knawe" (36/52).

But witte I wolde, or we hens wente, Be clargy clere if we couthe knawe Yf any lede [??]at liffe has lente Wolde aught allegge agaynste oure lawe (ll.49-56) But this is precisely what the child Christ does.

Rolle determined to use "na straunge ynglis, bot lyghtest and comonest" (Bramley 1884: 4) for the benefit of those "that knawes noght latyn" (Bramley 1884: 4), which would agree with Partridge's (1973: 21) statement given in the Introduction.