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]