26. Warray: make war; French “guerroyer”, to molest; hence,
perhaps, “to worry.”
27. All day meeten men at unset steven: every day men meet at
unexpected time. “To set a steven,” is to fix a time, make an
appointment.
28. Roundelay: song coming round again to the words with
which it opened.
29. Now in the crop and now down in the breres: Now in the
tree-top, now down in the briars. “Crop and root,” top and
bottom, is used to express the perfection or totality of anything.