893. losenges and scochouns, lozenges (or diamond-shaped figures) and escutcheons.
911. felden, caused to fall, knocked off.
914. chalaundre; see note to l. 81. wodewale; see note to l. 658.
915. archaungel, supposed to mean 'a titmouse,' answering to F. mesange. But no other example of this use is known.
923. This line is too long; I omit ful wel devysed, which is not in the original.
933. thwiten, cut, shaped; pp. of thwyten, to cut (see Hous of Fame, 1938); cf. thwitel in the Reves Ta. A 3933, and E. whittle.
938. gadeling, vagabond; see Gamelyn, 102, 106.
971. The idea of the two sets of arrows is taken from Ovid, Met. i. 468-471.
998. William de Lorris did not live to fulfil this promise.
1008. I. e. Beauty was also the name of an arrow; see l. 952. The allegory is rather of a mixed kind.