17. MS. _han ye me_, correctly; Percy omits _me_, and so spoils both sense
and metre.
27. Lovers should be _lean_; see Romaunt of the Rose (E. version), 2684.
The F. version has (l. 2561):--
'Car bien saches qu'Amors ne lesse
Sor fins amans color ne gresse.'
28. MS neu_er_e; Percy prints _nere_; but the syllables _in his_ occupy the
time of _one_ syllable. I suspect that the correct reading is _thenke ben_;
_to_ is not wanted, and _thenke_ is better with a final _e_, though it is
sometimes dropped in the pres. indicative. Percy prints _thinke_, but the
MS. has _thenk_; cf. AS. _þencan_. With l. 29 cf. Troil. v. 363.