‘Antecristus aget que sunt contraria Cristo,
Mores subuertens et viciosa fouens:
Nescio si forte mundo iam venerat iste,
Eius enim video plurima signa modo.’
18797. ‘What think you of whether such an one has yet come? Yes, for truly pride now rises above humility’ &c. That this is the meaning is clear from the above-quoted passage of the Vox Clamantis. I assume that the author is now speaking in his own person again, notwithstanding ‘nostre court’ below, which occurs also in other places, e.g. 18873.
18805. Vox Clam. iii. 1271,
‘In cathedram Moysi nunc ascendunt Pharisei,
Et scribe scribunt dogma, nec illud agunt’
and Conf. Am. Prol. 304 ff.,
‘And thus for pompe and for beyete