299. manie: the final ‘e’ counts as a syllable and the preceding vowel is absorbed; see note on 323: but ‘many’ is also used as the plural.
305. Cp. Vox Clam. iii. 1271, ‘In cathedram Moysi nunc ascendunt Pharisei,’ and see Rom. de la Rose, 11809 ff. (ed. Méon), English version, 6889 ff.
311. is noght foryete, an impersonal use, ‘there is no forgetting’: cp. 338.
323. Here ‘studie’ is reduced by elision to the value of a monosyllable: see note on Mirour, 296. The rule applies to substantives like ‘accidie,’ ‘Mercurie,’ ‘chirie,’ adjectives like ‘manie’ (l. 299), and verbs like ‘studie,’ ‘carie,’ ‘tarie.’
329. If Ethna brenne &c. What is meant is the fire of Envy, which is often compared to that of Etna, ii. 20, 2337, &c.
338 f. The verb is used impersonally, ‘there is cause for us all to be sorry.’
348. ‘it causeth this new sect to be brought in.’ The subject must be supplied from the previous clause.
366 f. That is, the various claimants to the papacy are supported in various lands by national partiality or interest.
380 f. ‘They use no other reasoning than this as to the peril of religion.’
383. his world, i.e. his fortune, cp. 1081, i. 178, &c.