v. 1477. stode] i. e. stood.
v. 1478. Suppleyng] i. e. Supplicating.
v. 1480. bokis ... rase] i. e. books ... erase.
v. 1483. rin] i. e. run.
v. 1487. take it in gre] i. e. take it kindly: see note, p. 95. v. 68.
v. 1490. ragman rollis] The collection of deeds in which the Scottish nobility and gentry were compelled to subscribe allegiance to Edward I. of England in 1296, and which were more particularly recorded in four large rolls of parchment, &c., was known by the name of Ragman’s Roll: but what has been written on the origin of this expression appears to be so unsatisfactory that I shall merely refer the reader to Cowel’s Law Dictionary, &c., ed. 1727, in v., Jamieson’s Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang. in v., Nares’s Gloss. in v., Gloss. to The Towneley Myst. in v., and Todd’s Johnson’s Dict. in v. Rigmarole.
v. 1491. lenger] i. e. longer.
v. 1495. Counforte] i. e. Comfort.
v. 1498.
Diodorus Siculus of my translacyon