2) shoes 3) gucken 4) bakenschienbeine; die hosen hingen über die knie herab 5) [beschlumpert], beschmutzt 6) koth 7) fausthandschuhe 8) abgetragen 9) wicht 10) waten 11) rinder 12) abgenützt, mager His hood was full of holes, and his hair out;
With his cnopped shoon2) clouted full thick,
His ton toteden3) out as he the lond treaded;
His hosen overhongen his hoc-shynes4) on everich a side
All beslomered5) in fen,6) as he the plough followed.
Twey mittens7) as meter made all of clouts,
The fingers weren for-weard8) and full of fen honged.
This whit9) wasled10) in the feen almost to the ancle;
Four rotheren11) him beforn, that feeble were worthy;
Men might reckon each a rib, so rentful12) they weren.