[8.] valkyne, waken.
[10.] gyrss, grass.
[11.] assay, assault.
[13.] wox, voice.
[17.] frome I can, from the time that I did.
[18.] It deuit me, it availed me. Jamieson gives “Dow, 1. to be able; A.S. dugan (valere), to be able. 2. to avail; Teut. doogen.”
[P. 2], [l. 23]. hewy ȝerys, heavy years.
[24.] “Until that Phœbus had thrice gone through his full circuits” (lit. spheres). See the peculiar use of “pas” in other places.
[26.] “So, by such a manner, was my lot fated;” see [l. 41].
[28.] carving can, did cut.