[2069]. For which, for which cause, on which account. Go, may walk; the subjunctive mood.
[2070]. Other degree, i.e. a higher degree than that of page. He professes not to aspire to this, unless she vouchsafes to give it him.
[2072]. 'May I die by a death of shame.' The of depends on deye; cf. Man of Lawes Tale, B 819.
[2075]. A twenty, about twenty. A is here used as expressly an approximative result; as in 'an eight days,' Luke ix. 28; so 'a ten,' Squi. Tale, F 383. Only MS. C. retains a, but it is wanted for the metre.
[2082]. God shilde hit, God defend or forbid it.
[2083]. Leve, grant. We also find lene, to grant, give, but it is only used with a following case; whilst leve is only used with a following clause. Me is governed by befalle. 'And grant that such a case may never befall me,' i.e. for Theseus to be merely her page.
[2086]. And leve, and may He also grant.
[2089]. 'Yet it would be better'; followed by Then (= than) in l. 2092.
[2094]. The latter syllable of profit comes at the caesura, and is easily read quickly. We need not change unto into to, as in MS. A. only.
[2096]. To my, as for my.