FOOTNOTES:
[1082] maugre = despite.
[1083] let = hinder.
[1084] meinye = company.
[1085] bicker’d = attacked, skirmished.
[1086] bent = rough grass.
[1087] wild = game, deer.
[1088] shear = several.
[1089] grevès = groves.
[1090] glent = glanced, darted.
[1091] mort = death of the deer.
[1092] quarry = dead game.
[1093] brittling = cutting up.
[1094] boun’s = boundaries.
[1095] gleed = live coal.
[1096] bairn = fighting man.
[1097] on a party = apart.
[1098] fytte = division of a ballad.
[1099] wouche = evil.
[1100] tree = timber.
[1101] doughty = doughty man.
[1102] basnets = steel caps.
[1103] manoplie = long gauntlet.
[1104] stern = stern men, warriors.
[1105] freyke = bold fellow.
[1106] swapt = smote.
[1107] swat = sweated.
[1108] sprent = spurted.
[1109] hight = promise.
[1110] wane = host, multitude.
[1111] dight = done, doomed.
[1112] stint = stayed.
[1113] blint = stopped.
[1114] dint = stroke, lunge.
[1115] halèd = pulled.
[1116] stoure = press of battle.
[1117] dree = endure.
[1118] lee = fair, bright.
[1119] hendè = courteous, gentle.
[1120] makes = mates.
[1121] carp = talk.
[1122] weal = clench.
[1123] brook = retain.
[1124] Glendale = one of the six ‘wards’ of Northumberland. Homildon was here.
[1125] spurn = fray(?).
[1126] reane = gutter.
[1127] balès = woes.
[1128] bete = better, relieve.