5341. For hir read the.
5353. The original reading would be It hit, i. e. it hideth; then It was dropped, and hit became hidith.
5384. gote, goat; but the F. text has cers, i. e. stag, ramage, wild.
5443. Obscure. The F. text has: 'Et que por seignors ne les
tiengnent' Perhaps it means: 'They perform it (their will) wholly'; see l. 5447.
5452. Here chere of is for there of, with the common mistake of c for t.
5470. Of, i. e. off, off from.
5484. arn, with trilled r, is dissyllabic; as in l. 5047.
5486. 'Friend from affection (affect), and friend in appearance.' Chaucer, in his Balade on Fortune, l. 34, has 'Frend of effect [i. e. in reality], and frend of countenance.' And as the passage is not in the French, but is probably borrowed from Chaucer, we see that effect (not affect) is the right reading here; see l. 5549.
5491. The reading of Th. and G. is clearly wrong. The F. text helps but little. I read al she, i. e. all that she.