v. 182. wynche and keke] i. e. wince and kick.

v. 183. not worth a leke] An expression not uncommon in our early poetry:

“No fallow wourth ane leik.”

G. Douglas’s King Hart,—Pinkerton’s An. Scot. Poems from Maitl. MSS. i. 42.

“Such loue I preise not at a leke.”

Chaucer’s Rom. of the Rose, fol. 130,—Workes, ed. 1602.

v. 190.

Amende whan ye may,

For, usque ad montem Sare,

Men say ye can not appare]