4717. Exod. xxi. 24 f.
4729. Exod. xxi. 26 f.
4741. Cp. Conf. Am. iii. 1095,
‘Contek, so as the bokes sein,
Folhast hath to his Chamberlein,’ &c.
4750. le court sure, ‘runs upon him’; so 10763 and elsewhere.
4752. l’un ne lesse, ‘he fails not to attain one or the other,’ i.e. either the object of his violence, or his own destruction.
4753. Is. ii. 22, ‘Quiescite ergo ab homine, cuius spiritus in naribus eius est.’ This illustrates the meaning, otherwise rather obscure, of the Latin line after Conf. Am. iii. 1088 (introducing the subject of ‘Contek’), which is seen by this to be a reference to the above passage of Isaiah.
4769. come fist a Asahel, ‘as it did to Asahel’: see note on 1135. The reference is to 2 Sam. ii. 18 ff.
4826. Cp. 3882.