[374.] The reference is to the resurrection from the dead.
[378.] I dead be not defould, that I (when) dead be not defiled. This prayer was answered, for the poet received honorable burial in Westminster Abbey.
[381.] And widowes ayd, i.e. had charge (to) aid widows, etc.
[382.] In face of judgement, before the judgment-seat.
[422-]423. his ... her, Redcross Knight...mercy.
[430.] For nought he car'd, for he cared nought that his body had been long unfed.
[470.] that same mighty man of God, Moses. See Exodus, xiv, 16, xxiv, and xxxiv.
[471.] That blood-red billowes, of the Red Sea.
[478.] that sacred hill, the mount of Olives.
[483.] that pleasaunt Mount, mount Parnassus, the seat of the nine Muses (l. 485), the patronesses of the arts and of learning. Sacred and profane literature are beautifully blended in the thoughts of the contemplative man.