2561. 'Now groveling on your face, and now on your back.'
2564. 'Like a man that should be defeated in war.' To get a rime to abrede or abreed, abroad, read forwerreyd; see l. 3251.
2573. 'Thou shalt imagine delightful visions.' The 'castles in Spain' are romantic fictions. Cf. Gower, Conf. Am. ii. 99.
2617, 2624. In both lines, wher is short for 'whether.'
2628. To liggen, to lie, is a Northern form; I alter liggen to ly, which occurs in the next line.
2641. contene, contain (thyself). But the F. text has te contendras, which perhaps means 'shalt struggle.'
2650. What whider gives no sense; read What weder, i. e. whatever weather it be; see next line.
2660. score, (perhaps) cut, i. e. crack; F. text, fendéure.
2669. I supply a, i. e. by; or we may supply al.
2676. There is something wrong here; the F. text has:—