49. syn: 3 pl. because euery liffyng leyde is equivalent to a plural subject 'all men'.
52. coueteis: MS. couetous.
56. alod: a shortened form of allowed, apparently on the analogy of such words as lead infin., led pa. t. and pp. For a parallel see note to I 254-5.
57. Sex hundreth yeris and od: the od thrown in to rime, as Noah was exactly 600 years old according to Genesis vii. 6.
66. and my fry shal with me fall: 'and the children <that> I may have' (?).
88. for syn sake: 'because of sin'. Until modern times a genitive preceding sake usually has no s, e.g. for goodness sake. The genitive of sin historically had no s (OE. synne), but the omission in a Northern text is due rather to euphony than to survival of an old genitive form. Cp. for tempest sake I 177.
108. then: 'nor', a rare Northern usage, which is treated as an error here in England and Pollard's text, though it occurs again at l. 535. Conversely nor is used dialectally for than.
109. Hym to mekill wyn: 'to his great happiness'.
137. take: 'make', and so in l. 272.
167-71. knowe: awe. The rime requires knāwe or ǭwe.