[59]. hath the wrecched: 'scriptorum inops deleuit obliuio.'
[69]. ended: 'definitum.' We now say 'finite.'
[73]. endeles: 'interminabilem.' We now say 'infinite.'
[77]. were thought, were considered in comparison with eternity.
[89]. This rather man, this former man, the former.
[95]. seyde: 'Iam tandem, inquit, intelligis me esse philosophum? Tum ille nimium mordaciter, Intellexeram, inquit, si tacuisses.' This story is alluded to in Piers Plowman; see my note to that poem, C. xiv. 226.
[108]. despyseth it; cf. Troilus, v. 1821-7.
Metre 7. [1]. with overthrowing thought: 'mente praecipiti.'
[3]. shewinge, evident, open to the view: 'Latè patentes ... plagas.'
[7]. dedly, mortal, perishable: 'mortali iugo.'