Full dere it shall be bought.
112.
112.2 ‘Leve,’ grant.
112.4 ‘Or that,’ before that. The proverb is a favourite in Middle English: see Early English Lyrics, CXI.
‘God, that was of a mayden borne,
Leve us well to spede!
For it is good to assay a frende
Or that a man have nede.’
113.
The abbot lothely on hym gan loke,