Note E422 — 67.
Reading edition
"Yyng men, I red that ye be war, That ye cum not in the snar; For he is browt in meche car, That have a shrow onto his wyfe.
In a panter I am caute, My fot his pennyd, I may not owt; In sorow and car he his put, That have, etc.
With a qwene yif that thou run, Anon it is told into the town; Sorow he hath both up and down, That have, etc." —Song in MS. of 15th century quoted above.
"Feareth me," that is, it frightens me, I fear, as in "me liketh" = it pleases me, I like.