—— wrotes] i. e. roots.
Page 132. v. 2. made ... a windmil of an olde mat] The same expression occurs again in our author’s Magnyfycence, v. 1040. vol. i. 258.
v. 4. commaunde] i. e. commend.
—— Cok wat] See note, p. 108. v. 173.
Page 133. v. 2. lack] i. e. fault, blame.
v. 3. In your crosse rowe nor Christ crosse you spede]—crosse rowe, i. e. alphabet; so called, it is commonly said, because a cross was prefixed to it, or perhaps because it was written in the form of a cross. See Nares’s Gloss. in v. Christ-cross. Christ crosse you spede alludes to some other elementary form of instruction:
“How long agoo lerned ye Crist crosse me spede?”
Lydgate’s Prohemy of a mariage, &c.,—MS. Harl. 372. fol. 50.
and see title of a poem cited p. 167. v. 296.