62. The final e in peyn-e is suppressed; so in A. L. 359, 416.
68. Cf. 'And as they sought hem-self thus to and fro'; A. L. 43.
75. Here espyed rimes with syde, wyde; in A. L. 193, it rimes with asyde and gyde.
89. The goldfinch is afterwards opposed to the nightingale. Hence he replaces the cuckoo in the poem of the Cuckoo and Nightingale. Just as the Cuckoo and Nightingale represent the faithless and the constant, so the goldfinch and the nightingale are attached, respectively, to the bright Flower and the long-lasting Leaf. This is explicitly said below; see ll. 439, 444.
98. in this wyse; appears also at the end of a line in A. L. 589; cf. in her gyse, A. L. 603; in ful pitous wyse, A. L. 584; in no maner wyse, A. L. 605.
99, 100. These lines correspond to the Cuckoo and Nightingale, 98-100.
113. inly greet, extremely great; cf. inly fair, A. L. 515.
115. 'Ye wold it thinke a very paradyse'; A. L. 168.
118. Better I set me doun, as in A. L. 77.