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,