20109. de celle extente, ‘to that extent.’ This seems practically to be the meaning; that is, so far forth as the purse extends.
20120. la coronne: evidently this indicates the tonsured priest, whose circle of unshorn hair was supposed to represent the crown of thorns. As to the following lines, we must take them to mean ‘if you read the sequence of the Gospel you will know who is meant,’ the relative being used in the same way as in 1244, &c.
20123. son incest: see note on 9085.
20126 f. ‘offices fall to the lot of different persons at different times.’
20140. ‘There is no one by whom they may be corrected.’
20153 ff. ‘There are those who farm out prostitution as if it were property of land and tillage.’
20161. This stanza is very closely parallel with Conf. Am. Prol. 407-413,
‘And upon this also men sein,
That fro the leese which is plein
Into the breres thei forcacche