16524. oultrage, ‘extravagance,’ of boasting or expense.
16532. Cp. 15499.
16535. au commun, ‘for the common good’: cp. 14574.
16539. orine: properly ‘origin,’ hence ‘stock,’ ‘race,’ (‘de franche orine,’ ‘ceux de ourine ou ancieneté,’ Godefr.). Here it is almost equivalent to ‘offspring.’
16541. Qui bien se cure, ‘if a man takes good heed’: note on 1244.
16597 ff. Cp. Conf. Am. i. 299 ff.,
‘For tho be proprely the gates,
Thurgh whiche as to the herte algates
Comth alle thing unto the feire,
Which may the mannes Soule empeire.’