[7] The same root exists in monarch, a person who rules alone.
[8] Two-languaged.
[9] What is called the feudal system was based upon war. A knight held land of his baron; a baron of his king—on condition of bringing so many men into the field on the summons of his overlord.
[10] Low Latin is the name for that kind of corruption of Latin which was written and spoken after the breaking up of the Roman Empire in the fifth century.
[11] A synonym is a word that has the same meaning as another word; like begin and commence; will and testament. There are very few real synonyms in English; because when the language acquired a word of similar meaning, it at once set to work to use it in a different way, or to give it a different function, or to bestow on it a different tone, colouring, or shade.
[12] He might have said hall and bower. In the old English times, the hall was the outer room of the cottage, into which the front door opened, and bower was the inner room.
[13] A liche or lyke originally meant body.
[14] Ayenbite = againbite. The again corresponds to the re in remorse.
[15] In head-rhymes, two or three words in each line begin with the same letter.
[16] The highest value.