2756. We should rather have expected ‘That I fro you wol nothing hele.’
LIB. IV.
9. Cp. Mirour, 5606,
‘Lachesce dist, Demein, Demein.’
38. Thou schalt mowe: cp. ii. 1670, where we have ‘mow’ for ‘mowe.’
60. a fin. This is a French expression, which appears repeatedly in the Mirour as ‘au fin.’
77 ff. The only definite indication of sources here is the reference (such as it is) to Ovid, Her. Ep. vii., contained in ll. 104-115.
92. as it be scholde, cp. iii. 1348.
104 ff. This picture seems to be constructed partly from a misreading or misunderstanding of Ovid, Her. Ep. vii. 1 f.,
‘Sic ubi fata vocant, udis abiectus in herbis