[14]. so as, seeing that, since: 'cùm.'
[25]. alle thinges may, is omnipotent: 'potentis omnia.'
[27]. an enbasshinge ... ende: 'infiniti stuporis.'
[30]. right ordenee, well ordered: 'dispositissima domo.'
[32]. heried, praised. This resembles the language of St. Paul; 2 Tim. ii. 20.
[41]. cesen, cause to cease: 'sopitis querelis.'
[45]. alle thinges, all things being treated of: 'decursis omnibus.'
[47]. fetheres, wings; 'pennas.' The A. S. pl. fethera sometimes means wings.
[50]. sledes, sleds, i. e. sledges: 'uehiculis.' The Vulgate version of 1 Chron. xx. 3 has: 'et fecit super eos tribulas, et trahas, et ferrata carpenta transire.' Wycliffe translates trahas by sledis (later version, sleddis).
Metre 1. [2-5]. Quoted in Ho. Fame, 973-8.