2405. do, bring it about, cause it to come to pass.
2422-34. From Tes. vii. 39, 40; there are several verbal resemblances here.—Kölbing.
2437. 'As joyful as the bird is of the bright sun.' So in Piers Pl., B. x. 153. It was a common proverb.
2438-41. Cf. the Teseide, vii. 67.
2443. Cf. 'the olde colde Saturnus'; tr. of Boethius, bk. iv. met. 1.
2447-8. From Le Rom. de la Rose, 13022, q. v.
2449. 'Men may outrun old age, but not outwit (surpass its counsel).' Cf. 'Men may the wyse at-renne, but not at-rede.'—Troilus, iv. 1456.
'For of him (the old man) þu migt leren
Listes and fele þewes,
Þe baldure þu migt ben: