v. 415. raye] i. e. array.

v. 416. Agayne] i. e. Against.

v. 417. ensembyll] i. e. together. (Fr.)

v. 418. The nebbis of a lyon they make to trete and trembyll]—nebbis, i. e. neb, nib, nose: to trete, i. e. (I suppose) to become tractable.

v. 419. folys] i. e. fools.

v. 420. to play cowche quale] So in Thersytes, n. d.;

“Howe I haue made the knaues for to play cowch quaile.”

p. 42. Roxb. ed.

“And thou shalt make him couche as doth a quaille.”

The Clerkes Tale, v. 9082. ed. Tyr.