Quod minus est in re suplent iurancia verba,’ &c.
25350. a son dessus, so ‘at myn above’ in Conf. Am. vi. 221.
25556. tu plederas, ‘you will have to sue him.’
25558. ‘He pays no regard to honesty.’
25569. parasi, equivalent to ‘parisi,’ properly an adjective used with names of various coins, as ‘livre parisie,’ but often also by itself to denote some coin of small value, in phrases such as we have here.
25607. For this function of St. Michael cp. 13302. Here the point suggested is that the seller ought to be reminded by his balance of that in which his merits must eventually be weighed.
25618. enclinez: this is simply a graphical variation of enclines, rhyming with ‘falsines,’ &c.
25631. Cp. 20912.
25657 ff. ‘I would not desire a better stomach than could be ruined by medicines, or a longer purse than could be drained by an apothecary,’ i. e. the best of stomachs and the longest of purses may be thus ruined.
25691. ‘But if they had worn wool,’ &c.