20905. See note on 12565. I do not know where this story comes from, but somewhat similar tales of the devil visiting Macarius and his monastery are to be found in the Legenda Aurea and elsewhere.
20952. esloigner, used with a personal object, ‘flee from.’
20989. Jerome, Ep. cxxv. 7, ‘Sordidae vestes candidae mentis indicia sunt.’
20999. Cp. Chaucer, C.T. Prol. 193 f.
21001. I do not know anything about this story.
21061 ff. Cp. Vox Clam. iv. 371-388.
21076. cloistrers: i.e. those who remain within the monastery walls.
21094. qui s’est rendu, ‘who has delivered himself to God,’ by his profession: cp. 20988.
21118. mais petit voy, &c., ‘but I see small number of them who,’ &c.
21133 ff. This passage, in which monastic virtues and vices are personified with the title ‘danz’ (Lat. ‘dompnus’) which was given to monks, has a parallel in Vox Clam. iv. 327 ff.