289-92. Read lider, hider, togider.
292. must vs: cp. l. 334 and note to VI 192.
298. 'There is other yarn on the reel', i.e. there is other business on hand.
320. brether sam: 'brothers both'. Some editors prefer to read brother Sam 'brother Shem'.
336 ff. Chaucer refers to the quarrels of Noah and his wife in the Miller's Tale (ll. 352 ff.):—
'Hastou nat herd', quod Nicholas, 'also
The sorwe of Noe with his felaweshipe
Er that he myghte brynge his wyf to shipe?
Hym hadde be levere, I dar wel undertake,
At thilke tyme, than alle his wetheres blake,