115. 'What ails you, and how it came about?'; cp. l. 102.

129. _ichil_ = _ich wille_; and so _ichaue_ 209, _icham_ 382, _ichot_ XV

_b_ 23. These forms, reduced to _chill_, _cham_, &c., were still

characteristic of the Southern dialect in Shakespeare's time: cp. _King

Lear_, IV. vi. 239 _Chill not let go, Zir_.

131. _þat nouȝt nis_: 'That cannot be'; cp. l. 457 _þat nouȝt

nere_.

157-8. _palays_: _ways_. The original rime was perhaps _palys_: _wys_

'wise'.

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