4668. 'See, there's a fine knowledge.' _Noble_ is ironical, as in 4639.
4681. _with myn honde_; see note to l. 2037 above.
4689, 90.
'Si sauras tantost, sans science,
Et congnoistras, sans congnoissance.'
4697-4700. To him who flees love, its nature is explicable; to you, who are
still under its influence, it remains a riddle.
4705. In Tyrwhitt's Gloss., s.v. _Fret_, he well remarks:--'In Rom. Rose,
l. 4705, _And through the_ fret full, read _A trouthe_ fret full.' In fact,
the F. text has: 'C'est loiautes la desloiaus.' _Fret full_ is adorned or
furnished, so as to be full; from A. S. _frætwian_, to adorn; cf. _fretted
full_, Leg. of Good Women, 1117; and see Mätzner. Cf. l. 7259. On the
whole, I do not think it is an error for _bret-ful_, i. e. brimful.
4712. This line is not in the F. text; it seems to mean--'a wave, harmful
in wearing away the shore.'
4713. _Caribdis_, Charybdis, the whirlpool; cf. Horace, Carm. i. 27. 19.
4720. _Havoir_, property; usually spelt _avoir_.
4722. 'A thirst drowned in drunkenness'; F. 'C'est la soif qui tous jors
est ivre.'
4728. _drerihed_, sadness; F. 'tristor'; cf. G. _Traurigkeit_.
4732. F. 'De pechies pardon entechies.' _without_, on the outside.