93. _Avowe_ is all one word, though its component parts were often written
apart. Thus, in P. Plowman, B. v. 457, we find _And made avowe_, where the
other texts have _a-vou_, _a-vowe_; see _Avow_ in the New E. Dict. See my
note to Cant. Tales, Group C, 695.
97. Here the gap in the MSS. ceases, and we again have their authority for
the text. For _Had_ we should, perhaps, read _Hadde_.