558. ther ... inne, wherein (Gamelyn was).
567. 'As I hope to have the use of my chin.' See note to l. 334.
578. 'I will repay thee for thy words, when I see my opportunity.'
583. It ben, they are; lit. it are. A common idiom in Middle English. See P. Plowman, C. vi. 59, ix. 217, xvi. 309; and compare it am I, as in Chaucer, Man of Lawes Tale, B. 1109.
588. 'Make their beds in the fen,' i. e. lie down in the fen or mud.
596. Spoken ironically. Adam offers them some refreshment. They reply, that his wine is not good, being too strong; indeed, so strong that it will not only, like ordinary wine, steal away a man's brains, but even take them out of his head altogether, so that they lie scattered in his hood. In other words. Adam's staff breaks their heads, and lets the brains out.
606. 'It is better for us to be there at large.'
609. Lodge says that they 'tooke their way towards the forest of Arden.'
610. 'Then the sheriff found the nest, but no egg (in it).' So also in William of Palerne, l. 83: 'Than fond he nest and no neiȝ · for nouȝt nas ther leued'; i. e. for nothing was left there. No neiȝ = non eiȝ, no egg.
616. and loke how he fare, and let us see how he may fare.