24129. voldroiont, ‘ought to desire’: see note on 1688.
24170 f. Cp. Conf. Am. Prol. 833,
‘The world empeireth every day.’
24216. Vei la: so ‘vei cy,’ 23688.
24226 ff. i.e. he will not undertake the cause which is not favoured by fortune. The ‘double ace’ would of course be the lowest throw with two dice, and ‘sixes’ the highest.
24255 ff. Cp. Vox Clam. vi. 241-244.
24265. ‘Ne quid nimis.’
24267. Des tieux, ‘such persons,’ subject of the verb.
24272 f. ‘Neither his nature nor his strain is seasoned with justice.’
24290. The word ‘mire’ seems here to be used for a surgeon as distinguished from a physician: that, however, is not its ordinary use.