21373 ff. Observe how clearly this agrees in substance with Chaucer’s humorous description in the Sompnours Tale.
21376. ‘If the woman has little or nothing to give,’ like the widow in Chaucer’s Prologue,
‘Yet wolde he have a ferthing or he wente.’
21377. meinz is rather confusedly put in with ‘ne s’en abstient.’ The writer meant to say ‘none the less does he demand,’ &c.
21382. Matt. xxiii. 14.
21399. The quotation is actually from Hos. iv. 8. In Vox Clam. iv. 767, the same quotation is given in the same connexion and attributed rightly to Hosea.
21403. Cp. Vox Clam. iv. 1141 ff. The passage of the Plowmans Crede relating to this subject is well known.
21449. An allusion to the story current about the death of the Emperor Henry VII in the year 1313.
21455. s’il volt lesser, &c., ‘if you ask whether he will spare us,’ &c.
21469 ff. Chaucer, C. T. Prol. 218 ff.,