25240. pour sercher, &c. For the form of expression cp. Bal. xi. l. 5, Conf. Am. i. 2278,
‘To sechen al the worldes riche,’
and other similar passages.
25254. Brutus, i. e. Brut of Troy: so London is referred to in the Confessio Amantis, Prol. 37*,
‘Under the toun of newe Troie,
Which tok of Brut his ferste joie.’
25261 ff. ‘Fraud may have large dealings, but he has small honesty when he buys and sells by different standards of weight.’ The idea is apparently that the buyer is deceived as to the true market price when wholesale dealings are carried on with weights nominally the same but really different, as when the merchant buys coal by the ton of 21 cwt.
25269. See note on 3367.
25270. la crois, &c.: cp. 18580.
25287. Cp. Bal. xviii. l. 8.