St. 2
p. 1, l. 15. wyght has been inserted instead of dowghtty in order to restore the rhyme with hyght, knyght, myght; cf. Havelok, ed. Skeat, l. 344:
‘He was fayr man and wicth.’
p. 1, l. 17 = Ipomadon, l. 63. Parallel passages to this hyperbolic expression are collected in Kölbing’s note to this line (p. 364).
p. 1, l. 24. We find the same idea as here, viz. that nobody can resist the will of God, who has power over death and life, in Sir Tristrem, ll. 236 ff.:
‘Þat leuedi, nouȝt to lain,
For soþe ded is sche!
Who may be ogain?
As god wil, it schal be,
Vnbliþe.’