l. 1396
_Stepe stayred_ [_þe_] _stones of his stoute throne_,
Bright shone the stones of his firm throne.
1397 _hiled_ = covered.
1398 _bounet_, went about.
1402 _strake steuen_ = struck up sound.
1403 _wrasten krakkes_, sounds (notes) are raised.
1410 _foles_, fowls, birds. _flakerande_, flickering, fluttering.
1412 _on blonkken bak_, on the back of horses. In lines 1407-1412 we
have evidently an allusion to the “table subtilties” of the
fourteenth century.
1420 _weȝed_, served.
1425 _dotage_, folly.