[11]. out of ... good; 'extrinsecus.'
[28]. mesuren, &c.; 'Plurimi uerò boni fructum gaudio laetitiâque metiuntur.'
[34]. is torned; a bad translation of 'uersatur,' i.e. 'resides.'
[38]. merinesse, enjoyment; 'iocunditatis.'
[50]. for which, on which account; 'quare.'
[55]. Epicurus. See Cant. Tales, Prol. 336-8, where this is quoted; and see Merch. Ta. E 2021; Troil. iii. 1691; 'Epicurus ... sibi summum bonum uoluptatem esse constituit.'
[57]. birefte awey. But the Lat. text has precisely the opposite sense: 'quod caetera omnia iocunditatem animo uideantur adferre.' For adferre [MS. C afferre], Chaucer has given us the sense of auferre.
[58]. studies, i.e. endeavours; 'studia.' corage; 'animus.'
[59]. al be it, &c.; 'et si caligante memoria.'
[60]. not, knows not; 'uelut ebrius, domum quo tramite reuertatur, ignorat.' See Cant. Tales, A 1262.