18420. L’escoles, for ‘les escoles,’ ‘li’ (or ‘le’) being used for ‘les’: see Glossary ‘ly,’ ‘le.’
18421. The part of the work which begins here runs parallel with a large portion of the Vox Clamantis, viz. Books iii.-vi. inclusive.
18445. The assertion that he is merely giving voice to public opinion is more than once repeated by our author in his several works, e.g. Conf. Am. Prol. 122 ff.
18451. Simon Magus is the representative of spiritual corruption, called ‘simony.’ His name is similarly used in our author’s other works, e.g. Conf. Am. Prol. 204, 439, and often in the Vox Clamantis. With the argument here compare Vox Clam. iii. ch. 4, where nearly the same line is followed.
18462. deux pointz, ‘two points,’ instead of one: ‘ou ... ou,’ ‘whether ... or.’
18466. ‘Or if not so, then proceed to tell me’ &c. For ‘avant’ cp. 14730.
18469. ‘I cannot believe.’
18505. Cp. Vox Clam. iii. 265 ff.,
‘In quanto volucres petit auceps carpere plures,
Vult tanto laqueos amplificare suos’: &c.