‘My lorde to mete is he,

And so is many a gentyll man,

For the love of thee.’

100.

100.3 ‘coresed,’ perhaps = coursed; i.e. a horse used in tourneys, a courser, or charger.

The porter swore a full grete othe:

‘By God that madë me,

Here be the best coresed hors

That ever yet sawe I me.

101.