12361. Seneca, Ep. lxxxviii. 29, ‘Fides sanctissimum humani pectoris bonum est, nulla necessitate ad fallendum cogitur, nullo corrumpitur praemio.’
12373. James ii. 14-20.
12406. Supply ‘porte’ from the next line: ‘he carries equally corn or beans.’
12409. Seneca, Ep. xxxvii. 4, ‘Si vis omnia tibi subicere, te subice rationi.’
12440. appara is future, cp. 1140; used here in the sense of command, ‘it shall not appear,’ ‘obeie’ above, and ‘requiere’ below, being subjunctive in imperative sense, ‘let a man obey,’ &c.
12448. Bed. in Luc. xi., ‘Clavis scientiae humilitas Christi est.’
12452. This is a reference to the series of maxims attributed to Ptolemy and prefixed in many MSS. and early printed editions to the Almagest. See the paper in Anglia xviii. pp. 133-140, by E. Flügel, who prints the whole set of sayings and shews that the Almagest references in the Roman de la Rose and in Chaucer are to these. We have here a reference to the ninth in order, ‘Qui inter sapientes humilior est, sapientior existit, sicut locus profundior magis abundat aquis aliis lacunis.’
12464 ff. Cp. Bal. xxxviii. 1.
12505. The adjective ‘vrais’ seems here to fill the place of an adverb.
12518. Ecclus. iii. 20.