5458. le decré: the reference is probably to the Canon law; cp. 7480.
5492. des perils ymaginer. This form of expression, in which the preposition belonging to the infinitive is combined with the article of the object, occurs also 9339, 16303, and elsewhere. So also in other authors, as Rom. de la Rose 2875, ‘Or sunt as roses garder troi.’
5499. Prov. vii. 10-22.
5500. Qui, ‘whom.’
5572 f. ‘He who has growth in common with the trees’; an allusion to the text of Gregory quoted so often by our author: see 26869.
5580. apparant: I take this to mean ‘heir apparent,’ as in Conf. Am. ii. 1711.
5606. Cp. Conf. Am. iv. 9,
‘And everemore he seith, “Tomorwe.”’
5622. The kissing of the ‘pax’ came after the prayer of consecration.
5645 ff. Matt. x. 22, and Luke ix. 62.