‘And makth his exposicion
After the disposicion
Of that he wolde.’
The connexion is the same as here.
5205. On the subject of ‘Tirelincel’ cp. Waddington, Man. des Pech. 4078 ff.
5216. ‘Hold thy nurture so dear’ (as to think of it in this matter): ‘norreture’ is that which has to do with physical development, and ‘preu’ I take to represent the Latin ‘prope,’ which appears in this form among others: see Godefroy.
5252. Cp. 8130. To judge by Littré’s examples for the fourteenth-century usage of ‘bout,’ it would seem to be specially used of the top or bottom of a cask.
5257. Prov. xxvi. 14.
5266. Cato, Distich. i. 2:
‘Plus vigila semper, neu somno deditus esto,