19407. Cp. Chaucer, Persones Tale, 618 (Skeat): ‘And ofte tyme swich cursinge wrongfully retorneth agayn to him that curseth, as a brid that retorneth agayn to his owene nest.’
19411. Du quelle part, ‘in whatever direction.’
19457. S’en fuit: apparently used in the same sense as ‘fuit,’ with ‘sainte oreisoun’ as direct object.
19501 f. Evidently a play upon the words ‘phesant,’ ‘faisant,’ and ‘vin,’ ‘divin,’ as afterwards ‘coupe,’ ‘culpe.’
19505 f. ‘Rather than to correct and attend to the fault of the Christian man.’ This use of ‘pour’ has been noticed before, 6328, &c.
19891. The two leaves which are lost contained the full number of 384 lines, and we are still on the subject of bishops.
19897. Not Solinus, so far as I know.
19907. 1 Tim. iii. 1.
19941. la divine creature, ‘God’s creature.’
19945. 1 Sam. xii. 19 ff.