Jà ne m'en desespererai.'
4464. a-slope, on the slope, i. e. insecure, slippery.
4472. Perhaps stounde should be wounde. F. 'S'ele ne me fait desdoloir.' Stounde arose from repeating the st in staunche.
4499. enforced, made stronger, i. e. increased.
4510. Read simpilly; this trisyllabic form is Northern, occurring in Barbour's Bruce, i. 331, xvii. 134. Cf. l. 3861.
4525. 'Who was to blame?' Cf. l. 4529.
4532. for to lowe, to appraise; hence, to be valued at. F. 'De la value d'une pome.' See Allow in the New E. Dict.
4549. The develles engins, the contrivances of the devil.
4556. yolden, requited; cf. Somp. Ta. D 2177.
4559. 'Ought I to shew him ill-will for it?'