[313] Securely or certainly. So in Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida," Book iii., l. 833—
"The drede of lesing makith him, that he
May in no parfite sikernesse ybe."
[314] [To the former edition. Printed for the Percy Society, 1849.]
[315] These have all been adopted in the present reprint. The variations exhibited in the Percy Society's text should be rather called mistakes of the transcriber, and two whole lines were omitted.
[316] The Museum copy has a woodcut on the back of the title-page, which is wanting in the other copy, a circumstance which appears to confirm this opinion.
[317] [Probably for the sake of the rhyme, instead of entendu, understood.]
[318] [Following.]
[319] [i.e., God's wounds and hearts; the orig. has hartes.]
[320] [Intend.]