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643. _cwre_, care.
P. 20, l. 649. _nemmyt_, named.
652. _were_, war.
654. _or than to morn_, earlier than to-morrow.
660. _our few_, over few.
677. _northest_, north-east.
P. 21, l. 686. _fechteris_, fighters.
688. _holde_, held.
691. _presone_, prison.
697. _peite_, pity.
699. The metre of Lancelot's lament is that of Chaucer's "Cuckoo and Nightingale," and was very possibly copied from it. _Qwhat haue y gilt_, what crime have I committed.
702. _ago_, gone.
703. _nat_, naught; _me glaid_, gladden me.
706. _til haue_, to have.
709. _Sen thelke tyme_, since that time.
P. 22, l. 718. _of remed_, for a remedy.
719. _sesith_, ceaseth.
723. _with this lady_, by this lady.
728. _laisere_, leisure.
731. _diuerss wais sere_, divers several ways.
733. _bur_, bore.
735. _cher_, car.
740. _dout_, to fear.
745. _but were_, without doubt. This expression often occurs.
P. 23, l. 751. _few menye_, small company; an oddly sounding expression to modern ears.
753. _cold_, called.
754. _hot_, hight, was named.
755. _but in his c.u.mpany_, unless he had with him.
757. _He saith_; the speaker is the captain of the hundred knights, called in l. 806 _Maleginis_.
768. _als fell_, just as many.
777. _hard_, heard.
781. _clepit_, called.
P. 24, l. 793, _as he wel couth_, as he well knew how.
796. _sen_, seen.
800. _sen_, since.
806. _was hot_, was hight, was named.
809. _In myde the borde and festinit in the stell_, In the midst they encounter, and fastened in the steel. See l. 850.
812. _Rout_, company.
815. _ferde_, fourth.
817. _sauch thar latter batell steir_, saw their last division stir.
P. 25, l. 820. _gane his mortall fell._ A word seems here omitted; if after _mortall_ we insert _strokis_, the sense will be, "His enemies began his mortall strokes to feel."
825. _worth_, worthy. It would improve the metre to read _worthy_ (l. 875).
828. _In to were_, in war, in the strife.
829. _hyme bure_, bore himself.
839. _to-for_, heretofore.
841. _Atour_, i.e. _at over_, across.
842. _a.s.sall_, a.s.sault. The rime shews we should read _a.s.saill_, as in l. 855.
849. _socht atour_, made their way across. The use of _seke_ in Early English is curious.
P. 26, l. 861. _set.i.th his payn vpone_, devotes his endeavours to.
868. _al to-kerwith_, wholly cutteth in pieces.
