[146.] tak one hand and mak, undertake and compose; trety, treatise; vnkouth, unknown, new.
[151.] belevis, believe will please thy lady.
[160.] yis, this.
[P. 6], [l. 161]. troucht, truth.
[163.] discharge, release.
[170.] spir, sphere.
[171.] “At command of a wise (god from) whose vision,” etc. We sometimes find in old English the adjective “a wise” used absolutely for “a wise man.” See “Le Morte Arthur,” ed. F. J. Furnivall, l. 3318.
[175.] tynt, lost.
[177.] be this worldis fame. Here again, as in many other passages, “be” expresses with relation to, as regards.
[185.] yaim, them.