21641. ‘Cannot fail to suffer for it’: ‘compere’ for ‘compiere’ from ‘comparer,’ which is usually transitive, like ‘acomparer’ 21536, meaning ‘to pay for.’
21647. The reference is to 2 Pet. ii. 1-3, where ‘pseudoprophetae’ is the word used in the Vulgate.
21663 ff. The same argument as was before applied to the monks, 21061 ff.
21676. n’en puet chaloir: the meaning apparently is ‘it cannot be doubted,’ but I cannot clearly explain the phrase.
21739. The Apocalypse does not exactly say this, but it is apparently our author’s interpretation of ch. viii. 10, 12, or some such passage.
21754. ‘But, before it do trouble us worse, it were well,’ &c., ‘face’ being used as auxiliary with ‘grever.’
21769. m’en soit au travers, ‘should be of the opposite opinion to me on the subject.’
21776. Mais &c.: answering apparently to the conditional clause, ‘s’aucun,’ &c.
21780. Encore ... plus, ‘even more (than I have said).’
21979. One leaf with its full number of 192 lines has here been cut out. We find ourselves in the favourite story of Nebuchadnezzar’s pride and punishment: cp. Conf. Am. i. 2785 ff., where it is told in full detail. Here it is one of a series of examples to illustrate the inconstancy of Fortune to those at the head of empires.