4322. The old reading gives no sense; the corrected reading is due
to Dr. Kaluza. It means 'I weened to have bought it very knowingly'; F. Ges cuidoie avoir achetés, I weened to have bought them. Ges = Ge les, i. e. les biens, the property. See note to l. 4352.
4333. For also perhaps read als, or so.
4352. wend, for wende, weened, supposed; F. cuidoie.
4372. For wol read wal; F. 'Qui est entre les murs enclose.'
4389. M. Méon here quotes a Latin proverb:—'Qui plus castigat, plus amore ligat.'
4432. G. de Lorris here ended his portion of the poem (containing 4070 lines), which he did not live to complete. His last line is:—
'A poi que ne m'en desespoir.'
When Jean de Meun, more than forty years later, began his continuation, he caught up the last word, commencing thus:—
'Desespoir, las! ge non ferai,