3256. musarde, sluggard; one who delays; F. musarde; see l. 4034.
3264. G. has seyne; Th. sayne. I prefer feyne. Not in the F. text.
3277. passioun, suffering, trouble; F. poine pain.
3284. but in happe, only in chance, i. e. a matter of chance.
3292. a rage, as in Th.; G. arrage. Cf. l. 3400.
3303. leve, believe; for the F. text has croit.
3326. in the peine, under torture; see Kn. Ta. A 1133.
3337. chevisaunce, resource, remedy. Both G. and Th., and all old editions, have cherisaunce, explained by Speght to mean 'comfort,' though the word is fictitious. Hence Kersey, by a misprint, gives 'cherisaunei, comfort'; which Chatterton adopted.
3346. The F. text has 'Amis ot non'; so that 'Freend' is here a proper name.
3356. meygned, maimed. This word takes numerous forms both in M. E. and in Anglo-French.