l. 7. moche better bayned than brayned] Does bayned here mean—boned? In (at least Scottish) poetry we frequently find the expression “bayne [bone] and brayne:” see, for instance, Henry’s Wallace, B. vii. v. 596. ed. Jam.
l. 9. burblyng] “I Burbyll or spring vp as water dothe out of a spring.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. clxxix. (Table of Verbes).
“And playd with burbels of the water.”
Marie Maudelein, p. 239,—Turnbull’s Legendæ Cathol. (from the Auchinleck MS.)
“The burbly wawes in vp boyling.”
Lydgate’s Chorle and the Bird,—MS. Harl. 116. fol. 147,—
where a word has dropt out of the line. (The ed. reprinted for the Roxburgh Club has—
“The burbill wawes in their vp boyllyng.”)
—— blode] i. e. blood.
l. 11. rechelesse] i. e. reckless.