19984. ceaux d’Orense: in the Conf. Am. ‘ayein Dorrence.’ The war is said by some authorities to have been ‘in Dorienses,’ and this is no doubt what is meant, but there is evidently a discrepancy here between the Mirour and the Confessio Amantis with regard to the name. The MS. reading here is of course ‘dorense.’
19995. proprement, ‘for his own part,’ i.e. ‘himself.’
19996. ‘or suffer his people to be killed.’
20014. mais pour cherir, ‘except for taking care of.’
20016. Judas is the type of those who fall by transgression from their bishoprics.
20019. Luke x. 30 ff. The ‘deacon’ here stands for the Levite of the parable.
20035. Zech. x. 3, ‘Super pastores iratus est furor meus, et super hircos visitabo.’
20042. Perhaps Is. xxix. 15.
20053. This must be a reference to Matt. xxiii. 13, attributed by mistake to Isaiah.
20065 ff. This is also in Conf. Am. v. 1900 ff. with a reference to Gregory’s Homilies, and referred to more shortly in Vox Clam. iii. 903 ff.