[242] [Folio Manuscript, ed. Hales and Furnivall, vol. i. p. 212.]

[243] [at intervals, sometimes.]

[244] My friend Mr. Farmer proposes to read the first lines thus as a Latinism:

"Be it right or wrong, 'tis men among,
On women to complayne."

[245] [Ver. 2. Woman, Prolusions and Mr. West's copy.]

[246] [not a bit.]

[247] [their.]

[248] [V. 11. her, i.e. their.]

[249] [pain and fear. In the Balliol MS. 354, the reading is in-fere (or in company with her lover).]

[250] [Percy printed the "She" at the beginning of this stanza.]