369, 381. With these lines cf. Cant. Tales, B 20-24.
380. F. _trois tens_, three moments. It is here asserted that no one can
think of the present moment; for while he tries to do so, three moments
have fled.
387. _fret_, for _freteth_, devours. 'Tempus edax rerum'; Ovid, Met. xv.
234. _and shal_, and will ever do so. _thing_ is pl., as in 206.
396. Bell and Morris here print _elde_ with a capital letter, shewing that
they did not make out the sense. But it is here a _verb_, as in 391, 392.
The sense is:--'Time ... had made her grow so extremely old that, as far as
I knew, she could in no wise help herself.'
401. _inwith_, for _within_, is common in Chaucer; the occurrence of
_pith_, just before, probably caused the scribe to omit _with_.