4882-4. Alluding to Cicero's treatise De Senectute.
4901. 'And considers himself satisfied with no situation.'
4904. Yalt him, yields himself, goes; F. 'se rent.'
4910. I. e. to remain till he professes himself, his year of probation being over. So, in l. 4914, leve his abit, to give up his friar's dress.
4923. Conteyne, contain or keep himself; F. 'le tiegne.'
4943. And mo seems a mistake for Demand, i. e. 'he may go and ask them.' F. 'Ou le demant as anciens.'
5014. This sentence is incomplete; the translator has missed the line—'Et qu'ele a sa vie perdue.' And he missed it thus. He began: 'That, but [i. e. unless] aforn hir,' &c., and was going to introduce, further on, 'She findeth she hath lost hir lyf,' or something of that kind. But by the time he came to 'wade' at the end of l. 5022, where
this line should have come in, he had lost the thread of the sentence, and so left it out!
5028. Who list have Ioye; F. 'Qui ... veut joir.'
5047. arn, with the trilled r, is dissyllabic; see l. 5484.