20527. Vox Clam. iii. 1559, ‘Plus quam tres dudum nunc exigit unus habendum.’
20528. mais, for ‘maisque,’ ‘provided that.’
20537. avant: used often with no particular meaning, cp. 20318. Here we may take it with ‘dirrons,’ ‘what shall we go on to say then,’ &c. It might, however, go with what follows, ‘takes beforehand.’
20539. a largesce, ‘freely bestowed’: it would be of course a provision in the will of the dead person.
20542. ardante, i.e. in purgatory.
20547. Cp. 1194, 10411.
20574. ‘Si diaconus sanctior episcopo suo fuerit, non ex eo quod inferior gradu est apud Christum deterior erit.’
20576. Par si q’: cp. 3233.
20582. ‘that however great his learning may be.’
20594. Matt. v. 13, 14.