12855. cuillante: the participles are here inflected as adjectives; so ‘flairante,’ ‘fuiante,’ ‘considerante.’ Perhaps ‘bien parlante’ and ‘volante’ may be regarded as really adjectives; but, even so, the author would have had no scruple in saying ‘parlant,’ ‘volant,’ if it had been more convenient.
12856. de nature, ‘by nature.’
12865. ‘Solyns’ seems to be a false reference: the statement may be found in Pliny, Nat. Hist. viii. 23.
12877. Ps. lxxiv. (Vulg. lxxiii.) 21, ‘Ne avertatur humilis factus confusus: pauper et inops laudabunt nomen tuum.’
12885 f. ‘And (whereby) in this life neighbours are honourable each to other.’
12925. Luke xv. 8, ‘si perdiderit drachmam unam,’ &c.
12926. ert conjoÿs, ‘was rejoiced with,’ a transitive use which we find also in l. 12934, where ‘luy’ stands for direct object, as often. The form ‘conjoÿs’ here is an example of that sacrifice of grammar to rhyme which is so frequent.
13005. Du tiele enprise, &c., ‘for having accomplished such an enterprise.’
13008. ses amys: the old subject-form of the possessive, cp. ‘mes,’ ‘tes,’ 9782, Bal. iv*. 3.
13021. Cp. Conf. Am. ii. 1772 ff.