2265. Danger: see note on i. 2443.
2288. Cp. i. 143 ff.
2312. a Mile: cp. iv. 689. It means apparently the time that it takes to go a mile: cp. Chaucer, Astrol. i. 16, ‘five of these degres maken a milewey and thre mileweie maken an houre.’
2319. a game, for ‘agame’: cp. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 636, 648. More usually ‘in game,’ as l. 2871.
2341. fulofte hath pleigned: as for example in the Planctus Naturae of Alanus de Insulis.
2365. ‘And I will consider the matter’: practically equivalent to a refusal of the petition, as in the form ‘Le Roy s’avisera.’
2367. is noght to sieke, ‘is not wanting’: cp. i. 924, ii. 44, &c.
2378. ‘In no security, but as men draw the chances of Ragman.’ To understand this it is necessary to refer to compositions such as we find in the Bodleian MSS., Fairfax 16, and Bodley 638, under the name of ‘Ragman (or Ragmans) Rolle.’ The particular specimen contained in these MSS. begins thus:
‘My ladyes and my maistresses echone,
Lyke hit unto your humble wommanhede,