The complete works of John Gower, volume 1

by John Gower

13779. ‘But it is a covetous bargain.’

13798. Conf. Am. Prol. 120 ff.

13805. 1 John iii. 14.

13853. Ps. cxxxiii. 1.

13893. qui descorde, ‘whosoever may be at variance.’

13897. paciente, ‘of Patience.’

13918. Cassiod. Var. xii. 13, ‘Pietas siquidem principum totum custodit imperium’: cp. l. 23059, and Conf. Am. vii. 3161*.

13921. The saying is thus quoted in the Liber Consolationis of Albertano: ‘Omnium etenim se esse verum dominum comprobat, qui verum se servum pietatis demonstrat.’ Cp. l. 23055, and Conf. Am. vii. 3137. The story connected with it is told in the Legenda Aurea, ‘De sancto Silvestro.’

13929. James ii. 13: cp. Conf. Am. vii. 3149*.

13947. ‘But it is never less worthy in consequence of this.’ The alteration to ‘n’est meinz vailable’ is not necessary, for ‘ja’ is sometimes used for ‘never’ without the negative particle, e.g. 10856.