48.4 ‘For’ = for the purpose that. Cp. ‘for’ in Child Waters, 28.6, First Series, p. 41.
John took the monkës horse by the head,
Forsooth as I you say;
So did Much the little page,
For he should not scape away.
49.
49.3 ‘of him agast,’ afraid of the consequences to him.
By the gullet of the hood
John pulled the monkë down;
John was nothing of him agast,