1208. See note to l. 1276 below; and cf. D. 1.
1210. Compare C. 743, and the note.
1215. For also, Tyrwhitt reads also so, against all authority, as he admits. The text is right as it stands. Eld-e is dissyllabic, the final e being preserved by the cæsura; and also means no more than 'so.' I suspect this is quoted from some French proverb. Dryden alters 'filth' to 'ugliness.'
1224. repair, great resort, viz. of visitors.
1234. 'I care not which of the two it shall be.' Cf. Gower, Conf. Amantis, i. 103:—
'Chese for us bothe, I you praie,
And what as ever that ye saie,
Right as ye wolle, so wol I.
My lord, she saide, grauntmercy.
For of this word that ye now sain,