2135 f. Cp. Conf. Am. i. 1240 ff.
2142. France is looked upon simply as a land which has revolted from its lawful sovereign, Edward III, who has the right ‘from his mother,’ 2148. This passage was apparently written before the death of Edward III.
2169. ‘Is delivered up in slavery to him.’
2184. Du permanable vilenie, to be taken with ‘mort,’ ‘death comes suddenly upon him bringing him to everlasting shame.’
2185. Is. xxxiii. 1. ‘Vae qui praedaris, nonne et ipse praedaberis? et qui spernis, nonne et ipse sperneris?’ &c.
2197. Deut. xxviii. 38 ff.
2209. Ezek. xvii. 19 ff.
2221. Prov. xvii. 5.
2224. Mal. ii. 10, ‘Numquid non pater unus omnium nostrum? numquid non Deus unus creavit nos? Quare ergo despicit unusquisque nostrum fratrem suum?’
2242. Greg. Moral. xxiii. 31, ‘Obstaculum namque veritatis est tumor mentis.’