2113. his oghne dom. The word ‘dom’ is used here in special reference to ‘kingdom’ in the line above. ‘Every man has a royal rule to exercise, that is the rule over himself.’
2124 f. ‘When he has not kept possession for himself of his own heart.’
2165. And felt it: we have here the elision-apocope in the case of a preterite subjunctive.
2194. hath nothing set therby, ‘accounted it as nothing.’
2198. withholde, ‘kept’ (in service).
2212 f. Cp. iii. 298, Vox Clam. ii. 1.
2217 ff. This ‘Supplication’ is a finished and successful composition in its way, and it may make us desire that our author had written more of the same kind. The poem In Praise of Peace, which is written in the same metre and stanza, is too much on a political subject to give scope for poetical fancy. The nearest parallel in style is to be found in some of the author’s French Balades.
2245. Whom nedeth help, ‘He to whom help is needful’: cp. Prol. 800, i. 2446.
2253 ff. Cp. vi. 330 ff.
2259 ff. Cp. Balades, xx.