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2306. _dante_, dainty.
2310. _t.i.thandis_, tidings; compare l. 2279.
P. 68, l. 2323. _aw_, owe.
2328. _fantessy_, fancy, notion.
2334. _for no why_, for no reason.
2337. _mon I fair_, must I go.
2338. _our son It waire_, over soon it were.
2342. _For-quhy_, because.
P. 69, l. 2352. _nor_ has the force of _but_.
2366. _be ony men_, by any means.
2368. _on of tho_, one of them.
2375. _chen of low_, chain of love.
2376. _and if ?he may deren_, an if you may declare.
P. 70, l. 2409. _hartly raquer_, heartily require.
2416. _gar ordan_, cause to be provided.
P. 71, l. 2428. _prewaly disspone_, privily dispose.
2436. _ellis-quhat_; I suppose this means, "he was on fire _elsewhere_."
2448. _hamlynes_, homeliness.
2452. _fest throw al the ?her eliche_, feast through all the year alike.
P. 72, l. 2469. _commend_, commended.
2470. _he drywith_, he driveth, pursueth. The reading is not _drawith_, as in Stevenson.
NOTES TO BOOK III.
P. 73, l. 2471. This line is too long, and the sense imperfect; but there is no doubt about the reading of the MS.
2474. _Awodith_, expels.
2475. _doune valis_, falls down; for it is evident that _valis_ is an error for _falis_, the mistake having arisen from confusion with the succeeding line.
2480. _cled_, clad.
2487. _bygown_, begun. In the next line Stevenson has _sown_; but the true reading is _Rown_, run; as in l. 2820.
2492. _barnag_, baronage, n.o.bility.
P. 74, l. 2522. _but dulay_, without delay; _the_, they.
2524. _thar com_, their coming.
2530. _in the dogre_, in its (due) degree.
P. 75, l. 2545. _Or that_, ere that.
2552. _he and hate_, high and hot.
2558. _the can_, they began.
P. 76, l. 2574. _hyme mak_, prepare himself; or perhaps simply, make (for the field), go.
2582. _helmys last_; _last_ clearly means _laced_; see l. 2250.
2594. _?hit_, although.
2599. _dout_, fear.
2600. _is a.s.semblit_, made an attack. The peculiar use of _a.s.semble_ must always be borne in mind.
2601. _erd_, earth.
P. 77, l. 2612. _found till gwyans_, go to Gwyans.
2614. _til esquyris thei sewyt_, after Esquyris they followed.
2619. _one to the melle socht_, made their way to the melee.
2627. _don bore_, borne down.
2630. Fifty thousand. It would appear that Galiot had 40,000, of whom 10,000 were held _in reserve_; so that in l. 2632 only 30,000 are mentioned. See l. 2569, 2647.
P. 78, l. 2646. _ten_, sorrow, vexation.
2656. _resauf_, receive.
2663. _at thar come_, at their coming; _led_, put down.
2670. _biding one the bent_, abide on the gra.s.sy plain.
P. 79, l. 2679. "That, despite their efforts, they must needs retire."
