Ms. reads ‘myghteste.’

The ‘ne’ is not in the manuscript, but the sense of the line requires it.

Ms. reads ‘than,’ but, as Hausknecht suggested, ‘thay’ seems the correct reading.

The p in ‘Pope’ is illegible in the ms.

There is a blank line in the ms. between these lines, and the sense suggests that something has been omitted here.

Hausknecht suggests reading ‘thus was it done’ or ‘this was i-done.’

Hausknecht suggests emending ‘Ho’ to ‘We’; but ‘Ho’ as a variant of the adverb ‘o’ (meaning ‘continually’ or ‘ever’) is a possible reading.

Ms. reads ‘thoughe.’

Ms. reads ‘met,’ probably an error for ‘mot.’ (A similar error occurs in line 2433.)

Ms. reads ‘religes,’ as it does again in line 1821.

The sense suggests that there is a gap of one or more lines after line 1025, though nothing in the manuscript indicates the omission.

Ms. reads ‘and thenkes.’ Hausknecht suggested the emendation to ‘as thenketh’ (‘as it seems’).

In the ms. line 1179 reads ‘Olyvere him hitte agayn upon the hede’; then there is a blank space at the beginning of line 1180, followed by the words ‘the hede than full sore.’ Hausknecht suggests emending the lines to appear as they do above in the text. His emendation restores the rhyme.

Hausknecht suggests that ‘alle’ in line 1341 is an error for ‘half.’

Hausknecht suggests reading ‘se’ for ‘sene’ in order to restore the rhyme.

I have followed Hausknecht’s suggestion in emending ms. ‘cowthe’ to ‘caughte’ and have also emended ms. ‘Be’ to ‘But.’

Ms. reads ‘harme skathe’ rather than ‘harme and skathe.’

Hausknecht suggests emending ‘byleved’ to ‘byleven’ (which would restore the rhyme).

Hausknecht suggests emending ‘he’ to ‘ye’; but reading ‘he’ in the sense of ‘a man’ or ‘someone’ allows us to maintain the manuscript reading.

These two lines are written as one in the manuscript.

Ms. reads ‘While thay mery drinkyng. . . .’ Hausknecht is probably correct in suggesting that ‘mery’ is miswritten for ‘were.’

I have followed Hausknecht in reading ‘stronde’ for the ms. ‘strowde.’

Hausknecht suggested reading ‘Assye’ for the ms. ‘Assyne.’ This is surely the right reading, as it restores the rhyme.

The ‘u’ in ‘Thou’ does not appear in the ms. I follow Hausknecht in adding it.

In Hausknecht’s edition the line reads ‘And assaye howe it wole it be.’ The second ‘it’ is not in the manuscript and is clearly a misprint in the edition.

Hausknecht suggests that ‘also’ should begin line 2422.

The ms. ‘mete’ is probably an error for ‘mote’ (the emendation Hausknecht made).

Hausknecht is probably correct in suggesting that ms. ‘and now’ should read ‘i-now.’

I follow Hausknecht in emending ms. ‘Thile’ to ‘While.’ The Roxburghe Club edition, however, reads ‘Thile’ as a contraction for ‘the while.’

I follow Hausknecht in emending ‘Gamylokes’ to ‘Gavylokes.’

I follow Hausknecht in emending the ms. reading: ‘Thay thanked god that thay him hadde / Gyfen thaye such grace to spede.’

Ms. reads ‘alaye.’

The e in ‘dyvers’ does not appear in the ms. Hausknecht suggested the addition.

French and Hale emend Hausknecht’s ‘Euer the founte’ to ‘Over the frounte’ (over the forehead). The ms. does, in fact, read ‘frounte,’ which is the reading of the Roxburghe Club edition. Reading ‘frounte’ makes the emendation of ‘Ever’ to ‘over’ even more plausible.

The two lines are written as one in the ms.

Some of the text is lost due to a torn manuscript page.