For sisours, for somonours, etc.
And the rest, as far as line 1100, differs very much in the two MSS.
[1103]. of Banneburies sokne, | Reynald the reve, | and the redyngkynges menye, | Munde the mylnere. Whit.
[1128]. Luke x, 7.
[1177]. With floryns ynowe. Edward III had issued, not very long before the date of this poem, the first extensive English gold coinage, to which he gave the Italian name of florins, derived originally from that of the city of Florence.
[1204]. to Westmynstre: i. e. to the courts of law which were held there.
[1404]. A moton of golde. A mutton (mouton) was a small French coin of gold, which bore the stamp of a lamb or sheep. See Ducange, v. Multo.
[1501]. Matth. vi, 3.
[1523]. Regrating, or the buying up of provisions and other things to make extravagant profits by retailing them, was one of the great sources of oppression of the poor by the rich in the middle ages, and was a constant subject of popular complaint.
[1529]. Whitaker's text adds here,—