‘Ut crati bufo maledixit, sic maledico
Tot legum dominis et sine lege magis.’
24973. Vox Clam. 463 f.,
‘Quid seu Balliuis dicam, qui sunt Acherontis
Vt rapide furie?’
24981. ribalds: observe the rhyme, showing that the ‘d’ is not sounded.
24996. A proverbial expression, which occurs also in 15405 f.
25021 ff. I do not clearly understand the first lines of the stanza. Perhaps it means, ‘For the expense to which you go in buying their perjury they pay (or suffer) the burdening of their conscience.’ Then afterwards, ‘The bribe is enough for them by way of evidence, for covetousness dispenses them from anything more’: ‘ove leur dispense,’ ‘arranges with them’ that this shall be enough.
25064. il, for ‘ils,’ cp. 10341.
25071. sanz culpe d’enditer, ‘free from indictable fault.’