Here Orf, for that thei wolden lacche,
With such duresce and so bereve
That schal upon the thornes leve
Of wulle, which the brere hath tore.’
Cp. also Vox Clam. iii. 195 f.
20178. Pour dire &c., to be connected with ‘ce ne te puet excuser’: ‘it cannot excuse you to say’ &c., ‘pour’ standing for ‘de,’ as often.
20195. ma bource estuet: this looks like a personal use of ‘estovoir,’ but presumably ‘ma bource’ is a kind of object, ‘it is necessary for my purse,’ as in phrases like ‘m’estuet.’
20197 ff. Cp. Chaucer, C. T. Prol. 658,
‘Purs is the erchedeknes helle.’
20200. ‘It is of a piece with this, that he uses no other virtue to correct me, provided that I give him my substance.’