Herrtage places the ‘r’ in ‘ther’ between brackets, but it is clearly present in the manuscript.

I have emended ‘resteyne’ to ‘reteyne’ (as the MED suggests).

Herrtage suggests emending ‘worde’ to ‘wone’ to achieve something nearer a rhyme. Mills also so emends.

I follow Herrtage and Mills in emending the ms. reading ‘age’ to ‘elde,’ which restores the rhyme.

I have emended ‘Bot’ (which makes no sense here) to ‘By.’

Mills emends ‘thay’ to ‘thayr.’

‘Passus’ and ‘fitt’ (which is an English translation of the Latin term) refer to structural units within a poem. The divisions into passus or fitts are not regularly marked in the manuscript. At this point the manuscript reads ‘Prymus passus the first Fytt.’ This probably marks the end of the first passus and the beginning of the second. The passus beginning at line 814 is indicated in the manuscript without a number.

I follow Mills in emending ms. ‘lawe’ to ‘laye,’ which restores the rhyme.

I follow Mills in emending ‘Eeven’ to ‘Even.’

I follow Herrtage and Mills in adding ‘care’ to this line.

Herrtage notes that ‘on evynhaunt’ is probably ‘a corruption of avenaunt’ (meaning ‘gracious’ or ‘noble’ here) which appears in different forms in lines 807 and 917. Mills emends the ms. by deleting ‘on.’

In this line I follow Mills’ reconstruction rather than Herrtage’s (‘For[th to Mela]yne’). The line in the manuscript clearly begins with a B.

Herrtage takes ‘gones’ as an alternate form of ‘gomes’ (men). Mills emends to ‘gomes.’

At least one leaf of the manuscript is lost at this point. In the missing lines, Charlemagne apparently tells one of his knights to ride to France for help.

I follow Mills in emending ms. ‘wills’ to ‘wille.’

Mills emends ‘mekills’ to ‘mekille.’

The manuscript ends at this point.