[Annotations: 83.4: From here to 118.3 the Edinburgh fragment is wanting. 86.1: ‘covent’ = convent. 87.1: Wanting: supplied by Ritson. 87.3: ‘But,’ unless: ‘ylkë,’ same. 88.3: ‘lever,’ rather. 91.4: ‘selerer’ cellarer or steward. 92.2: ‘bought,’ ransomed. 93.3: ‘highe,’ supplied from Copland’s edition. 95.1: ‘demed,’ judged. 95.4: ‘dysheryte,’ dispossessed; cf. 87.4. 98.: Wanting in all editions: supplied by Ritson. 100.3: ‘coresed,’ perhaps = coursed; _i.e._ a horse used in tourneys, a courser, or charger. 102.4: ‘salved,’ greeted. 103.1: See 34.1. 104.3: ‘shrewed,’ cursed. 105.2: ‘But,’ unless. So 111.3 106.4: ‘fone,’ foes. 107.1,2: ‘retained by presents of cloth and money.’ --Child. 108.4: ‘made the gree,’ paid my dues. (Old French _gre_, Latin _gratum_.) 112.2: ‘Leve,’ grant. 112.4: ‘Or that,’ before that. The proverb is a favourite in Middle English: see _Early English Lyrics_, CXI. 116.3: ‘as ferre in prees,’ in as thick a part of the fight. 118.4: From here to 124.1 the Edinburgh fragment is available. 119.2: ‘nere,’ nearer. Cp. _Robin Hood and the Potter_, 46.3. 123.2: ‘toke,’ gave. 126.4: ‘Verysdale,’ Wyresdale or Wyersdale. 127.4: The Edinburgh fragment is again available as far as 133.2. 128.2: ‘tene,’ trouble. 131.2: ‘ydyght,’ fitted. 132.3: ‘Inocked’ = i-nocked, notched. 133.1,2: The latter halves of these lines are torn away in the Edinburgh fragment. The Cambridge text is resumed at 133.3. 133.2: ‘stede,’ place. 134.1: ‘launsgay,’ javelin. 134.2: ‘male,’ baggage. Cp. 374.1. 135.1: So the Cambridge text: Child suggests ‘? But at Wentbrydge ther was.’ See Argument. 136.2: ‘i-pyght,’ put. 136.4: Edinburgh fragment again. 138.3: ‘frembde bested,’ in the position of a foreigner or stranger. See fore-note. 140.2: ‘free,’ supplied from the ‘fere,’ misprinted in the Cambridge text. Copland, ‘in fere.’ 140.4: ‘shende,’ put to rout. 141.1: ‘rome,’ room.] THE THIRD FYTTE (144-204)