6345. Mal. iii. 5, ‘et ero testis velox maleficis et adulteris et periuris et qui calumniantur mercedem mercenarii,’ &c.
6363. Jer. l. 33 ff. ‘Haec dicit Dominus exercituum: Calumniam sustinent filii Israel ... Gladius ad Chaldaeos, ait Dominus, et ad habitatores Babylonis,’ &c.
6386. Can this be Is. xix. 9, ‘Confundentur qui operabantur linum ... texentes subtilia’?
6389. Conjecture, cp. 3365.
6391. Luke xvi. 8.
6397. Ambrose tells the story, Hex. v. 8, of the crab and the oyster, ‘tunc clanculo calculum immittens, impedit conclusionem ostrei.’ I do not know the word ‘areine.’
6409. Perjurie: see note on l. 296.
6434. This was a charge commonly brought against swearers by the preachers of the day: cp. Chaucer, Pardoneres Tale, l. 12, &c., Persones Tale, 591 (Skeat).
6445. Cp. Matt. xxiii. 21 f.
6451. Probably Is. xlviii. 1.