421.1 ‘kest of’ = cast off: ‘colë,’ frock (cp. 372.1).
The kynge kest of his colë then,
A grene garment he dyde on,
And every knyght also, i-wys,
Another had full sone.
422.
When they were clothed in Lyncolne grene,
They keste away theyr graye.
‘Now we shall to Notyngham,’
All thus our kynge gan say.