[26.] of gret disport. Fond of gayety.
[27.] men. This word as here used is an indefinite pronoun equivalent to one, or any one.
[28.] "Love conquers all things."
[29.] chapeleyne. Probably assistant.
[30.] a fair for the maistryë. A fair one for the chief place.
[31.] "He would not give a pulled hen for that text"; that is, "he cared not a straw for it." Pulled = pylled = pilled = plucked.
[32.] waterles. Out of water.
[33.] what. Why, wherefore.
[34.] wood. Mad. Scotch wud, wild.
"An' just as wud as wud can be."—Burns.