23704 ff. ‘If anyone pays him well, he will show himself valiant at the sessions.’
23722 ff. ‘Though the heralds cry little to him for largess, yet he gives the poor reason to complain’: he robs the poor without the excuse of being generous to others out of the proceeds.
23726. un chivaler de haie, ‘a hedgerow knight.’
23732 ff. Terms of war are ironically used: he draws up his court in order of battle and throws into confusion the jury-panell, to support his friends and dismay their poorer opponents.
23755. du loy empereour, ‘by the law of the emperor.’
23815. n’ad garde de, ‘does not keep himself from.’
23844. quatorsze. The precise number is of no importance, cp. 24958. In Conf. Am. ii. 97, the author says ‘mo than twelve’ in a similar manner.
23869. Sisz chivalers. The author apparently will not admit the three pagan worthies, Hector, Alexander, and Julius Cæsar.
23895. Cp. Conf. Am. iv. 1630 f.,
‘Somtime in Prus, somtime in Rodes,