218. _My first matere_, my first subject; i. e. sleeplessness, as in l. 43.

219. _Whérfor_ seems to be accented on the former syllable. MS. B. inserts

_you_ after _told_; perhaps it is not wanted. If it is, it had better come

before _told_ rather than after it.

222. _I had be_, I should have been. _Deed and dolven_, dead and buried; as

in Cursor Mundi, 5494. Chaucer's _dolven and deed_ is odd.

244. _I ne roghte who_, to be read _In' roght-e who_; i. e. I should not

care who; see note to Compl. to Pite, 105. _Roghte_ is subjunctive.

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