10341. Puisqu’il. As ‘il’ for ‘ils’ is found in rhyme l. 25064, I have not altered it here: cp. 23922, 24635.
10347. The reference is not quite correct, for the decree of Cyrus was before the time of Ezra, though it did not take full effect until that time.
10358. 2 Macc. xii. 41-45.
10371. Ezra ix. f.
10374. del oïr, ‘in order to hear.’
10405. Isid. Sent. iii. 7. 8, ‘Pura est oratio quam in suo tempore saeculi non interveniunt curae; longe autem a Deo animus qui in oratione cogitationibus saeculi fuerit occupatus.’
10411. Aug. in Ps. cxviii., Serm. xxix. 1, ‘Clamor ad Dominum qui fit ab orantibus, si sonitu corporalis vocis fiat, non intento in Deum corde, quis dubitet inaniter fieri?’ Or Serm. lxxxviii. 12, ‘ne forte simus strepentes vocibus et muti moribus.’ Cp. 1194, 20547.
10441. Exod. xxiii. 15.
10450. ‘But he who bears himself humbly,’ &c. For this use of ‘qe’ cp. Bal. Ded. i. 1 ff.,
‘Q’en dieu se fie, il ad bel avantage.’