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.