296 barlay mar loi. This word is exceedingly common in the T. Book
(see l. 3391).
I bid you now, barlay, with besines at all
?at ye set you most soverainly my suster to gete.--T.B. l. 2780.
394 siker. Sir F. Madden reads swer.
440 bluk. Sir F.
Madden
suggests
blunk (horse).
I am inclined to keep to
the reading of the MS., and explain bluk as {ulk hrunk. Cf. the
use of the word Blok in "Early English Alliterative Poems,"
p. 100, l. 272.
558 derue doel, etc. nreat grief. Sir F. Madden reads derne, i.e. secret,
instead of derue (}erf). Cf. line 564.
