20740. Mal. i. 6, 7.

20785 ff. Vox Clam. iii. 2049 ff. The author is here dealing with young students, ‘scolares.’

20793. le meulx: see note on 2700, so ‘le plus’ below.

20798. Cp. Vox Clam. iii. 2071 ff.

20827. Vox Clam. iii. 2074, ‘Si malus est iuvenis, vix bonus ipse vetus.’

20832. Qui, ‘whom.’

20833 ff. Cp. Vox Clam. iv. 1-676.

20845. This is a very hackneyed quotation, but the origin of it does not seem quite clear; see note on Chaucer, C.T. Prol. 179 in Skeat’s edition: cp. Vox Clam. iv. 277.

20866. Cp. Vox Clam. iv. 26 f., ‘Pellicibus calidis frigus et omne fugant.’

20892. mye et crouste, ‘crumb and crust’ in the modern sense of the expression.