Ful of knyhthode and alle grace.’
157 f. ‘Peace with honour’ was a favourite thought of Gower’s, ‘pax et honor’ in the Vox Clamantis, vii. 1415.
174. ‘on earth peace, goodwill towards men.’
177 ff. ‘Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.’
204. waited, ‘attended to.’
235. devised, ‘divided’: cp. Conf. Amantis, ii. 3264.
236 ff. ‘nevertheless the law stands so reasonably established by man’s wit, that they can stand firm without that’ (i. e. without the help of the Church).
266. Cp. Prol. 795, ‘The comun ryht hath no felawe,’ that is, none to take its part.
278 f. deserved To him. The reading is right. It means ‘earned by service rendered to him’: cp. Conf. Amantis, iv. 3577, ‘Thogh I no deth to the deserve.’
281 ff. For the nine worthies see Caxton’s Preface to Mallory’s Morte d’Arthur.