v. 731. him lyst] i. e. pleased him.
v. 732. cheked at the fyst] Seems to be equivalent here to—attacked, turned against the hand which fed him. “Check is when Crowes, Rooks, Pyes, or other birds comming in the view of the Hawk, she forsaketh her naturall flight to fly at them.” Latham’s Faulconry (Explan. of Words of Art), 1658.
v. 733. agayne] i. e. against.
[Page 50.] v. 748. dyscust] See note, p. 321. v. 881.
v. 752. rote] i. e. root.
v. 753.
Yet it is a wyly mouse
That can bylde his dwellinge house
Within the cattes eare]
This proverbial saying occurs in a poem attributed to Lydgate;