6556. au creance, ‘on credit,’ meaning apparently that they charge exorbitant prices when credit is given, cp. 7246, 7273 ff.
6561. Deut. xxv. 14.
6640. tout son propre adune, ‘gathers together everything for himself,’ i.e. appropriates everything.
6672. qu’il doit vivre, ‘that he should live’: for this use of ‘doit,’ cp. 1193.
6685 ff. Cp. Conf. Am. v. 4917-4922.
6733. For this treatment of dame as a monosyllable in the metre, cp. 13514, 16579, and Bal. xix. 3, xx. 2, &c.
6745. Cp. Conf. Am. v. 1971 (for the form of expression).
6750. Matt. xix. 24.
6758. 1 Tim. vi. 10.
6760. Senec. Dial. xii. 13, ‘si avaritia dimisit, vehementissima generis humani pestis.’