2. Several MSS. transpose _hard_ and _sharp_; it is of small consequence.

3. _Slit_, the contracted form of _slideth_, i. e. passes away; cf. 'it

_slit_ awey so faste,' Can. Yeom. Tale; C. T., Group G, l. 682. The false

reading _flit_ arose from mistaking a long _s_ for _f_.