246. _to knaw_: 'to confess'.

247-8. _daw to ken_: 'to be recognized as stupid', 'a manifest fool'.

272. _castell_: note the rime with _sayll_: _nayll_: _fayll_, which may

be due to suffix substitution on the analogy of _catail_ beside _catel_

'cattle'. For _take_ see note to 137.

281. _chambre_: the rime points to a by-form _chamb(o)ur_, but the

uninflected form is awkward. Cp. _thre chese chambres_ 'three tiers of

chambers' 129, where the construction is the same as the obsolete _three

pair gloves_.

289-92. Read _lider_, _hider_, _togider_.

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