198. From Isaiah xiv. 11.
201. From Micah vii. 6.
204. The reference is to the Vulgate version of Ps. x. 6 (answering to Ps. xi. 6 in the A. V.): 'Qui autem diligit iniquitatem, odit animam suam.' Cf. Prov. xxix. 24.
207. The 'five wits' are the five senses. Cf. P. Plowman, B. xiv. 53:—
'Bi so that thow be sobre of syghte and of tonge,
In etynge and in handlynge, and in alle thi fyue wittis.'
208. grintinge, gnashing; cf. Matt. xiii. 42, xxv. 30.
209. nosethirles, nostrils. This seems to be taken from Jerome; for Hampole, in his Pricke of Conscience, l. 6677, says:—
'Of this Saynt Ierom, the haly man,
Says thus, als I here shewe yhow can: