7. sil: cp. xlii. l. 20.
17. Plus est divers, ‘he has more varied fortune.’
XLVIII. For this kind of thing, which recurs often enough in the literature of the time, cp. Rom. de la Rose, 4310 ff.
2. le droit certein, ‘the true certainty’: see ‘certein’ in Glossary.
9. le repos. This is the reading of the MS., and so also ‘est bass’ in l. 11. Dr. Stengel was safer than he supposed in following Todd.
XLIX. 5. qui deinz soi, &c., ‘when a man within himself,’ &c., cp. xxvi. l. 9.
L. 9. le tempre suef: cp. Mir. 14707.
<LI>. This balade is not numbered and does not form one of the ‘Cinkante Balades’ of which the title speaks. It is a kind of devotional conclusion to the series. The envoy which follows, ‘O gentile Engleterre,’ does not belong to this balade, being divided from it by a space in the MS. and having a different system of rhymes. It is in fact the envoy of the whole book of balades.
19. j’espoir: see Glossary under ‘esperer.’
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