[229]. Dey, MS.; seche, H.
[230]. Sic, probably for “too feloun a spotte”; trop est villeine tache et contre gentillece, H.
[231]. De Genesi ad litteram, xi. 13 (Migne, xxxiv. 436).
[232]. Eccl. xiv. 8, but the Vulg. has “lividi.”
[233]. No, MS.; ne soyes pas lonc ne prolice, H.
[234]. For, MS.
[235]. Sc. the eye of Polyphemus.
[236]. Bedeisus, MS.; no doubt a corruption of “Bede sur les Prouerbes,” H. The reference is apparently to Bede’s Expositio super Parabolas, ii. 20 (Migne, xci. 995).
[237]. Prov. xxi. 5.
[238]. Sc. frogs. This story of Latona is from Ovid, Met. vi. 313 sq.