21. Here the Bannatyne MS. inserts a spurious _fourth_ stanza. It runs
thus:--
'Falsheid, that sowld bene abhominable,
Now is regeing, but reformatioun,
Quha now gifis lergly ar maist dissavable,
For vycis are the grund of sustentatioun;
All wit is turnit to cavillatioun,
Lawtie expellit, and al gentilnes,
That all is loist for laik of steidfastnes.'
This is very poor stuff.
24, 25. _Suffre ... don_, suffer (to be) done; correct as being an old
idiom. See my note to the Clerkes Tale, E 1098.
28. For _wed_, two MSS. have _drive_; a reading which one is glad to
reject. It would be difficult to think of a more unfitting word.