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1323. _the son_, thee soon.
1330. _powert_, poverty; _as the-selwyne wat_, as thyself knows.
1334. _in to spousag_, in wedlock.
P. 40, l. 1343. The word _diuerss_ is required to complete the line; cf.
l. 731.
1352. _suppriss_, oppression.
1354. _wedwis_, widows.
1367. _that ilke_, that same.
1369. _sufferith_, makest to suffer.
P. 41, l. 1379. Eccles. iv. 9, 10.
1387. _yow mone_, thou must.
1392. _her-efter leif_, hereafter live.
1401. A comma is scarcely needed after "_sapiens_." It means "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." Prov. ix. 10.
P. 42, l. 1409. _to ryng wnder his pess_, to reign under His peace, by His permission. Roquefort gives _pais_, licence, permission.
1420. _arour_, error.
1427. _leful_, lawful.
P. 43, l. 1447. Ban, king of Albanak, was Lancelot's father. See l. 202, 1450.
1474. The MS. has "a??it."
P. 44, l. 1491. _tak the bak apone themself_, turn their backs.
1500. _yewyne_, given.
1504. _till_, to; redundant.
1506. _stand aw_, stand in awe. So also in l. 2684. The same expression occurs in _The Bruce_, iii. 62, ed. Pinkerton, p. 42, ed. Jamieson; and also in _Havelok_, l. 277, where the word _in_, supplied from conjecture, should be struck out.
P. 45, l. 1537. _throw his peple_, by his people.
1541. _Thus falith not_, etc., "Except wise conduct falleth to a king."
1546. It may be right to retain the spelling of the MS.--"kinghe;" for, though strange and unusual, it occurs again in l. 2527.
P. 46, l. 1556. _wende_, weened.
1560. _in to his contrare_, against him.
1568. _trewis_, truce.
1575. _his powar_, his chief army.
1576. _by the yhere_, by the ear, privately.
1579. _cold_, called; as in l. 753.
P. 47, l. 1597. _home fair_, go home.
1608. _And_; redundant in modern English. For many of the precepts given by Amytans the author must have been indebted to Gower, or, at any rate, to the author of the _Secreta Secretorum_. See Gower; Conf. Amantis; ed.
Pauli, lib. vii; vol. 3, pp. 152-159. And cf. Tyrwhitt's note to the Canterbury Tales, l. 16915; and Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry.
P. 48, l. 1628. _lest_, least; _low_, law. It requires care to distinguish the two meanings of _low_, viz. _love_ and _law_.
1633. _Iug_, judge.
P. 49, l. 1660. _sar_, sorely.
1666. A line omitted. The inserted line is purely conjectural.
P. 50, l. 1704. _pupelle_, people.
1708. _Inwyus_, envious.
1716. _longith_, belongeth.
1717. _the lykith_, it likes thee, thou art pleased.
P. 51, l. 1724. _betak til hyme_, confer upon him.
1730. _essy_, easy.
1736. _for the nonis_, for the occasion. See White's Ormulum.
1739. _vn to the vorthi pur yow if_, unto the worthy poor thou give.
1742. _set nocht of gret substans_, though not of great value.
1754. _alowit_, approved of.
P. 52, l. 1761. _tynith_, loseth.
1763. _atonis_, at once.
1771. _resawe_, receive.
