532. hiere, subjunctive: cp. ii. 252, iii. 665, &c.
574. othre thing: plural no doubt, but we have also ‘othre (other) thinges,’ i. 2464, iv. 1183.
Latin Verses. v. i. que Leone. This position of ‘que’ is quite common in our author’s Latin writings: see the lines after the Praise of Peace, ll. 10, 49, 50, &c.
8. sub latitante, ‘lurking underneath,’ ‘sub’ being an adverb. The best copies have the words separate.
577. applied, ‘assigned’; cp. iv. 2607, v. 913, vii. 1100.
585. seid, ‘named.’
595. feigneth conscience, that is, makes pretence as to his feeling, or state of mind, (‘As thogh it were al innocence’): cp. iii. 1504, ‘Mi conscience I woll noght hyde.’ The explanation suggested in the New Engl. Dict. that ‘conscience’ stands for ‘conscientiousness’ or ‘rightful dealing,’ will hardly do, and the word does not seem to be used early in this sense.
599. the vein astat: see note on Prol. 221.
608. these ordres, i.e. ‘the orders’ (of religion): so ‘these clerkes,’ Prol. 900.
where he duelleth, that is, the hypocrite, standing for Hypocrisy in general.