14947. ‘But as to the meditation which intercession for sin makes,’ &c.
14951. Bern. Serm. de Div. xl. 5, ‘Tertius gradus est dolor, sed et ipse trina legatione connexus,’ &c.
14961. om doubteroit, ‘one ought to fear’: see note on 1688.
14973. ‘and has reflected with a tender heart.’ This position of ‘et’ is quite usual; see note on 415.
15088. qant ot fait le tour, &c., ‘when he had done the deed of denying his creator.’
15090. Matt. xxvi. 75.
15110. Job vii. 1, ‘Militia est vita hominis super terram.’ Not the same in A. V.
15194. These are the opening words of the Institutions of Justinian: ‘Iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuens.’
15205. The sense of this might easily be got from Plato, but of course the citation is not at first hand.
15217. Civile is no doubt ‘la loy civile,’ referred to in 14138, 15194, &c. We find ‘Civile’ as here in l. 16092 in a connexion which leaves no doubt of its meaning, and again 22266. Civile, it will be remembered, is a personage in Piers Plowman.