Note 82 — THE FELON SEW OF ROKEBY AND THE FRYERS OF RICHMOND.
Reading edition
The MS. reads, to labour weere. The text seems to mean that all their labour to obtain their intended meat was of no use to them. Dr. Whitaker reads:—
"She was brim as any boar. And gave a grisly hideous roar, To them it was no boot."
Besides the want of connection between the last line and the two former, the second has a very modern sound, and the reading in the Rokeby MS., with the slight alteration in the text, is much better.