609. Lodge says that they 'tooke their way towards the forest of Arden.'

610. 'Then the sheriff found the nest, but no egg (in it).' So also in

William of Palerne, l. 83: 'Than fond he nest and no nei[gh] · for nou[gh]t

nas ther leued'; i. e. for nothing was left there. _No nei[gh]_ = _non

ei[gh]_, no egg.