12732. le puet celer avant, ‘can continue to conceal it,’ i.e. ‘can conceal it for ever.’
12733. Cato, Distich. ii. 16,
‘Nec te conlaudes, nec te culpaveris ipse;
Hoc faciunt stulti, quos gloria vexat inanis.’
12754. 1 Cor. xi. 2, 17.
12775. Ainz que voir sciet, &c., ‘But what she truly knows in the matter,’ &c.
12780. Cp. 1416.
12835. Zephaniah iii. 19.
12850 f. en son affaire, ‘for his part’: ‘secretaire’ means ‘private adviser,’ ‘privy-councillor.’
12852. pour deviser, ‘to describe him,’ i.e. ‘if one would describe him rightly’: cp. 11245.