12669. Q’om doit, ‘that one should,’ &c., see note on 1193.

12674. Ps. li. 15, (Vulg. l. 17).

12681. Ps. lvi. 10, 11, (Vulg. lv. 11).

12685. The reference to Judith is wrong: it should be to Esther (Vulg.) xiii. 17, ‘ut viventes laudemus nomen tuum, Domine.’

12689. Ps. cxv. 17.

12696. plier, ‘turn away (from us).’

12697. The form ‘fas’ is presumably for the rhyme.

12709. Probably Ecclus. xliv. 1.

12725. ‘Vox populi, vox Dei.’

12727. See below on 12733. The Disticha of Dionysius Cato are supposed to be addressed to the author’s son.