3240. ‘When the game was thus set between them.’ From this kind of expression comes ‘jeu parti,’ ‘jeupartie,’ meaning a set game or match between two parties, hence a risk or hazardous alternative: Engl. ‘jeopardy.’
3248. Ps. xxxviii. 16 (or xiii. 4).
3253. Ezek. xxv. 3 ff.
3265 ff. John xvi. 20.
3271 ff. This is an addition by our author, who is always unwilling to overlook the punishment of the wicked.
3277. Ecclus. xix. 5, ‘Qui gaudet iniquitate, denotabitur.’
3285. Matt. viii. 12, &c.
3294. doit supplanter, ‘may supplant’: see note on 1193.
3361. Cic. de Off. iii. 21.
3365. Conjecture, ‘trickery’: cp. 6389.