24605. a demesure, i.e. at an extravagant price, so that, as the author goes on to say, poor people cannot afford to buy in their market.

24625. For the metre cp. 2742, 26830: see Introd. p. xlv.

24646. ‘But advanced my unjust cause,’ &c. This position of ‘ainz’ is quite characteristic of the author: see note on 415.

24678. Ex. xxiii. 8.

24697. James i. 19.

24715. Gal. iii. 19, and Rom. xiii. 4.

24722. Deut. xxvii. 19.

24733 ff. Cp. Vox Clam. vi. 387 ff.

24748. comme tant, ‘how much.’

24769. Is. i. 23.