[408]. breste a wepe, burst out a-weeping.
[413]. Ret, for redeth, advises; cf. P. Plowman C. iv. 410, and note.
[425]. Pallas; perhaps invoked with reference to the Palladium of Troy; bk. I. l. 153. Moreover, Pallas was a virgin goddess.
[434]. 'Of me no consideration need be taken.'
[477]. 'Except that I will not give him encouragement;' see 1222.
[483]. 'But when the cause ceases, the disease ceases.'
[507]. gon, gone; 'not very long ago.'
[525]. mea culpa, by my fault; words used in confession: see P. Plowman, B. v. 77, and note.
[527]. Ledest the fyn, guidest the end; cf. Boeth. Bk. iv. Pr. 6. 149.
[537]. biwryen, used in place of biwreyen, to bewray. The same rather arbitrary form appears in Parl. Foules, 348.