1.
1.1 ‘carping’ = talking, tale.
1.5 This line is the burden: it is repeated at the end in the MS.
I heard a carping of a clerk
All at yon woodës end,
Of good Robin and Gandeleyn,
Was there none other thing.
Robin lieth in greenwood bounden.
2.
2.1 ‘wern’ = were (plural termination as in ‘wenten,’ etc.); ‘children,’ young fellows, as in ‘Child Roland,’ etc.