As this gives no sense, it is clear that crampeshe at is an error for crampisheth or crampished, which Lydgate probably adopted from the present passage.
Again, in Lydgate's Life of St. Edmund, in MS. Harl. 2278, fol. 101 (ed. Horstmann, p. 430, l. 930), are the lines:—
'By pouert spoiled, which made hem sore smerte,
Which, as they thouhte, craumpysshed at here herte.'
Skelton has encraumpysshed, Garland of Laurell, 16; and Dyce's note gives an example of craumpishing from Lydgate's Wars of Troy, bk. iv. c. 33, sig. Xv. col. 4, ed. 1555.
Once more, Lydgate, in his Fall of Princes, bk. i. c. 9 (pr. by Wayland, leaf 18, col. 2), has the line—
'Deth crampishing into their hert gan crepe.'
175. In Kn. Tale, 1950 (A 2808), it is Arcite who says 'mercy!'
176. Read endur'th. Mate, exhausted.
177. Read n'hath. Sustene, support herself; cf. C. T. 11173 (F 861).