64. avowing, vowing; because persons in peril used to vow to perform pilgrimages.
75. my ship was out of mynde, i.e. I forgot all about my previous danger.
84. the man, the merchant-man in Matt. xiii. 45.
105. enmoysed, comforted. Enmoise or emmoise is a variant of M.E. amese, ameise, from O.F. amaiser, amaisier, to pacify, appease, render gentle (Godefroy); answering to the Low Lat. type *ad-mitiare from mitis, gentle. See Amese in the New E. Dict. No other example of the form enmoyse is known.
111. of nothing now may serve, is now of no use (to you).
116. prison; the author has forgotten all about his adventure in the ship, and is now back in prison, as in ch. i.
118. renyant forjuged, a denier (of his guilt) who has been wrongfully condemned.
121. suche grace and non hap, such favour and no mere luck.
124. let-games; probably from Troil. iii. 527; spoilers of sport or happiness. wayters, watchers, watch-men, guards.
131. nothing as ye shulde, not at all as you ought to do.