fylde fell_ in MS.: I have followed the Manly text, which is based on a suggestion of Prof. Kittredge's, that _fylde_ was written by mistake, and that the copyist then, observing that _fylde_ neither rhymed nor made sense, added the right word, but neglected to erase _fylde_--"Christ's curse _have ye_" (7,_b_), _hade_ in MS. = had ye = have ye--"I had the _cup in_ my hand" (7,_b_), MS. has _cup ready in_: so also F and B; M as in present text--"Say _no[ugh]t_ again" (7,_c_), I have followed Manly: B and F have _not_ as in MS.--"shall find us _sh[r]ews_" (7,_c_), _schewys_ in MS.--"that brought you _hither_" (7,_c_), _brethern_ in MS., _hither_ being M's emendation with a suggestion that possibly _brether_ is the right word: F and B follow MS.--"Ye betray _many men_" (7,_d_), "_a man_" struck out (F)--"_my_ denomination" (8,_a_), "_by_" written over in MS. (F)--"a little force" (8,_a_), _faus_ in MS.--"full of English Latin" (8,_a_), a marginal note says: "to have this English made in Latin: I am a-ferde yt wyll brest: 'It ram be' [? MS.], quod the bocher on-to me, 'When I stale a leg a motun [gh]e are a stronge cunnynge clerke, I prey,' etc."--"_here is a pardon by limit_" (8,_c_), I have omitted _lo_ before "here" by mistake: "pardon by limit" is in original, _pardon bely mett_--"the demonical frayry" (8,_d_), M supposes a line lost here, but there is no indication of such in the MS.--"of _their_ own Christ" (9,_b_), _her_ in MS.--"Alas! what was thy fortune" (10,_d_), here a marginal note in the MS. occurs, "I may both syth and sobbe; þis ys a pituose remembrance, O In my soull, so sotyll in thy substance." Prof. Manly says "this may be a part of the three lines necessary to restore the versification." He indicates a line missing before the line beginning "Alas! what was thy fortune," and two lines missing after the line ending "that stinking dunghill"--"[MANKIND _approaches_ MERCY" (11,_a_), F adds "and kneels to him"--"In _sinful_ guiding" (11,_b_), _sympull_ in MS. which is followed by F; M has _sinful_--"_Vita hominis est_ milicia" (11,_d_), nnilicia in MS.--"Measure yourself," etc. (12,_b_), this line is in margin in MS.--"_I trow_ and ye were" (12,_d_), _It row_ in MS.: the same miscript occurs at 13,_a_--"_Mo than a_ good sort" (13,_b_), M suggests emending to "Methink a"--"To _them_ ye will go" (13,_b_), _hem_ in MS.; I follow M: B suggests _hom_--"by Saint _Quintin_" (13,_c_), _Sent_ _Qisyntyn_ in MS.--"I am even _very weary_" (13,_c_), _wery wery_ in MS.--"be there again to-morrow" (13,_c_), M, for the sake of the rhyme, suggests _to-morne_--"patience of Job _in_ tribulation" (14,_a_), so in M: the MS. has &--"my own sweet son" (14,_a_), against this line in the margin in another hand is, "_ita factum est_"--"To