125. _Mene_, mediator; lit. mean (intermediate) person. So in P. Plowman,
B. vii. 196--'And Marie his moder be owre _mene_ bitwene.'
132. Koch thinks that the false reading _it_ in some MSS. arose from a
reading _hit_ (= hitteth) as a translation of F. _fiert_, l. 196. Anyway,
the reading _is_ seems best. Surely, 'his reckoning hits so hideous' would
be a most clumsy expression.