In Somer mai he noght for hete.’
5395 ff. Cp. Conf. Am. iv. 1108 ff.,
‘And as a cat wolde ete fisshes
Withoute wetinge of his cles,
So wolde he do.’
5436. apres la mein: cp. 4558 and Conf. Am. iv. 893: ‘Thanne is he wys after the hond,’ an exact translation of this line.
5437 ff. Cp. Vox Clam. iv. 877 ff.
5449. Prov. xx. 4.
5452. beguinage, equivalent to ‘beggerie’ (5800), as ‘beguyne’ (6898) is used for ‘beggar.’ The Beguins were mendicants.
5455. 2 Thess. iii. 10.