Or li vient li gieus si divers,
Qu’el ne puet ne n’ose joer.’
71 f. Cp. Mirour, 8246 f.
84. the jolif wo: cp. i. 88, vii. 1910, and Balades, xii. 4, ‘Si porte ades le jolif mal sanz cure.’
105. of such a thew, ‘by such a habit’ (i. e. of love), to be taken with ‘dronkelew.’
144. hovedance, ‘court dance’: see New Eng. Dictionary.
145. the newefot: written thus as one word in S and F: it must be regarded as the name of some dance.
160. it am noght I: cp. Chaucer, Leg. of G. Women, 314, ‘sir, hit am I,’ Cant. Tales, A 1736, &c.
188. holde forth the lusti route: perhaps simply, ‘continue to be with the merry company.’ See ‘forth’ in the Glossary.
218. vernage: the same wine that is called ‘gernache’ or ‘garnache’ in the Mirour de l’Omme, ‘vernaccia’ in Italian, but whether a wine of Italy or Greece seems uncertain.