2449. Levit. xxiv. 16.
2452. Luke xxiii. 39 ff., but our author has characteristically reversed the story, giving us the supposed punishment of the blasphemer instead of the mercy shown to the penitent.
2462. C’est un des tous, &c. Cp. the expression in fourteenth-century English, ‘oon the beste’ &c.
2463. Rev. xiii. 1, 6 f.
2509. Ecclus. x. 12 (14). The references of our author to ‘Sidrac’ are to this book, ‘The wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach,’ but he also quotes from it under the name of Solomon, cp. 1317, and curiously enough the very next quotation, taken from the same chapter, is a case of this kind.
2513. Ecclus. x. 7, ‘Odibilis coram Deo est et hominibus superbia.’
2534. fait plus a redoubter: see note on l. 1883.
2538. a son passage, ‘at his death.’
2548. Ecclus. x. 17, ‘Sedes ducum superborum destruxit Deus, et sedere fecit mites pro eis.’
2587. Mal. i. 6.