440 bluk. Sir F. Madden suggests blunk (horse). I am inclined to keep to
the reading of the MS., and explain bluk as = bulk = trunk. Cf. the
use of the word Blok in "Early English Alliterative Poems,"
p. 100, l. 272.
558 derue doel, etc. = great grief. Sir F. Madden reads derne, i.e. secret,
instead of derue (= derf). Cf. line 564.
577 knaged, fastened.
The braunches were borly, sum of bright gold,
With leuys full luffly, light of the same;
With burions aboue bright to beholde;
And fruit on yt fourmyt of fairest of shap,
Of mony kynd that was knyt, knagged aboue.--T.B. l. 4973.
629 & ay quere hit is endele3, etc.
And everywhere it is endless, etc.
Sir F. Madden reads emdele3, i.e. with equal sides.