59. Read:—And th'erth-e. Cf. Book Duch. 410-5; Good Wom. 125.
61. Forget, i. e. forgetteth; pres. tense. So in Ayenb. of Inwyt, p. 18, l. 9, we find the form uoryet. I supply al.
67. inde, azure; see Cursor Mundi, 9920. pers; see Prol. 439.
73. grille, keen, rough. 'Grym, gryl, and horryble'; Prompt. Parv.
81. chelaundre, (cf. l. 663), a kind of lark; O. F. calandre, caladre, Lat. caradrius, Gk. χαραδριός. Cf. Land of Cockaigne, l. 97. papingay, parrot; Sir Topas, B 1957.
98. aguiler, needle-case. It occurs nowhere else. The rime drow, y-now occurs in Leg. Good Women, 1458.
118. Seine, the river of Paris. In the next line, wel away straighter means 'a good deal broader' or more expanded (F. text, plus espandue), though less in volume. Wel away, in this sense, occurs in P. Plowman, B. xii. 263, xvii. 42.
129. Beet, beat, struck, i. e. bordered closely; a translation of F. batoit.
131. So also 'And ful atempre'; Book Duch. 341.
147. The descriptions of allegorical personages in this poem are clearly imitated from similar descriptions in Latin poets. Compare the celebrated description of Envy in Ovid, Metam. ii. 775, and the like. MS. G. absurdly reads a hate for Hate.