4923. _Conteyne_, contain or keep himself; F. 'le tiegne.'

4943. _And mo_ seems a mistake for _Demand_, i. e. 'he may go and ask

them.' F. 'Ou le demant as anciens.'

5014. This sentence is incomplete; the translator has missed the line--'Et

qu'ele a sa vie perdue.' And he missed it thus. He began: 'That, but [i. e.

unless] aforn hir,' &c., and was going to introduce, further on, 'She

findeth she hath lost hir lyf,' or something of that kind. But by the time

he came to 'wade' at the end of l. 5022, where this line should have come

in, he had lost the thread of the sentence, and so left it out!

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