Title The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man. That is, the discussion between Death and Man. See MEDresoun (n.2), sense 8: “speech, talk, discourse.”↩back to note source

2 Quhilk sowld thy myrrour be. Compare Lydgate’s verba translatoris to the Dance of Death (A text, lines 31, 637 and B text, line 565) where he counsels his audience to have his words as a mirror before their mind. The same image reappears in this poem at line 10.↩back to note source

24 The subject of this line (“he” in the gloss) is “nane” (no one) in line 21.↩back to note source