688. yove, gave; but in l. 690 the form is gave. I suspect that in l. 690, gave should be gan, and that image (for images) is to be taken as a genitive case; then the sense is—'And I began anon to ponder and weigh in my heart her image's fresh beauty.'
701. The idea is due to Chaucer's Compleynt to Pity; cf. l. 1324.
702. Cf. 'Him deyneth nat to wreke him on a flye'; Legend of Good Women, 381.
703. eke him, him also; but perhaps read ete him.
704. Cf. 'and tendre herte'; C. T., A 150.
725. springen; false grammar, as it is a plural form.
727. endry, suffer, endure; so again in l. 941. This ridiculous hybrid is rightly excluded from the New E. Dict., which gives, however, several similar formations. It was coined by prefixing the F. prefix en-, with an intensive force, to M.E. drien, variant of dreogen, to endure (A.S. drēogan), Lowl. Sc. dree. No other author uses it.
732. spede, succeed; Stowe's alteration to speke is unnecessary.
749. 'How are you the nearer for loving,' &c.
751. fayn, put for feyn, i.e. feign, tell an untruth.