pourneant, for nothing, in vain.
voire, truly.
commanday a dieu, commended to God, bade farewell.
[P. li.] mestier en est, there is need of it.
greigneur bien, exceedingly well, very highly.
[P. lii.] greigneure, greater.
anuytoit, became night.
ie me doibz pener, I ought to take pains.
[P. liii.] ouen, this year.
[1] The extracts are from the Paris edition of 1513, 3 vols. folio, a copy of which is in the King’s Library in the British Museum. There are also two other editions in the Museum, one in the Grenville Library, 3 vols. Paris, 1494, folio; the other in one folio volume, Paris, 1520.