388. 'Ye come to choose your mates, and (then) to flee (on) your way.'

411. It appears that Chaucer and others frequently crush the two words

_this is_ into the time of one word only (something like the modern _it's_

for _it is_). Hence I scan the line thus:--

This 's oúr | uság' | alwéy, | &c.