1101. Cf. 'But whether goddesse or womman, y-wis, She be, I noot'; Troil. i. 425.
wher, a very common form for whether.
1105. Yow (used reflexively), yourself.
1106. wrecche, wretched, is a word of two syllables, like wikke, wicked, where the d is a later and unnecessary addition.
1108. shapen, shaped, determined. 'Shapes our ends.'—Shakespeare, Hamlet, v. 2. 10. Cf. l. 1225.
1120. 'And except I have her pity and her favour.'
1121. atte leeste weye, at the least. Cf. leastwise = at the leastwise: 'at leastwise'; Bacon's Advancement of Learning, ed. Wright, p. 146, l. 23. See English Bible (Preface of 'The Translators to the Reader').
1122. 'I am not but (no better than) dead, there is no more to say.' Chaucer uses ne—but much in the same way as the Fr. ne—que. Cf. North English 'I'm nobbut clemmed' = I am almost dead of hunger.
1126. by my fey, by my faith, in good faith.
1127. me list ful yvele pleye, it pleaseth me very badly to play.