'Fordoon, or dun hath brought hem in the myre.'
This shews that the scribe remembered the fifth line in the Manciple's Prologue, and thought fit to re-introduce it here, where it is wholly out of place. This is one of the many signs of the untrustworthiness of this grossly over-rated MS.
294. songe, didst sing; A. S. sunge.
301. See the Parl. of Foules, l. 363, and the note (vol. i. pp. 520-1).
306. slong, slung, threw violently; needlessly altered by Tyrwhitt to flong. So in the Seven Sages, ed. Weber, l. 1316:—'Amidde the pit he hit slong.' As s and f are often confused, I give some alliterative examples from the Geste Historyale of the Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.):—
'Sesit his sité, slong it to ground'; 4215.
'Slogh hym full sleghly, and slange hym to ground'; 13745.
'But the citie to sese, and slyng it to ground'; 8851.
307. which, to whom; i. e. 'to whom I commit him.'
314. Daun, Dan, i. e. lord, sir; see note to B. 3119.