7520. We are here referred back to ll. 3815-3818, where Wicked-Tongue reports evil about the author (here called the 'young man') and Bialacoil (here called Fair-Welcoming).
7534. 'You have also caused the man to be chased.'
7538. The repetition of thought (in the rime) is correct; the F. text repeats pensee.
7562. 'Meditate there, you sluggard, all day.'
7573. 'Take it not amiss; it were a good deed.'
7578. F. text—'Vous en irez où puis [pit] d'enfer.' And, for puis, some MSS. have cul; a fact which at once sets aside the argument in Lounsbury's Studies in Chaucer, ii. 119.
7581. 'What? you are anything but welcome.'
7588. tregetours, deceivers; cf. treget above, l. 6267.
7605. bemes, trumpets; see Ho. Fame, 1240.
7628. come, coming; see cume in Stratmann.