[76] This line is wanting in Dr. Whitaker's copy, whence it has been conjectured that something is wanting after this stanza, which now there is no occasion to suppose.
[77] Evil device.
[78] Blessed.
[79] Lost his colour.
[80] Some copies have the letters I.H.S., but both Whitaker and Scott write Jesus.
[81] Sheltered himself.
[82] The MS. reads, to labour weere. The text seems to mean that all their labour to obtain their intended meat was of no use to them. Dr. Whitaker reads:—
"She was brim as any boar.
And gave a grisly hideous roar,
To them it was no boot."