119.
119.2 ‘nere,’ nearer. Cp. Robin Hood and the Potter, 46.3.
‘Though ye wolde gyve a thousand more,
Yet were ye never the nere;
Shal there never be myn heyre
Abbot, justice, ne frere.’
120.
He stert hym to a borde anone,
Tyll a table rounde,
And there he shoke oute of a bagge