‘Lux est exemplo, cibus est dum pascit egenos,
Vnctio dum populis dulcia uerba ferit.’
Gower is right in reading ‘serit,’ which is given in MS. Univ. Coll. 143, f. 13.
1206. Cp. l. 1376.
1213. Cp. Ovid, Ars Amat. iii. 655.
1215 f. Cp. Ars Amat. iii. 653 f.
1233. Cp. Ars Amat. ii. 279.
1247 ff. Cp. Mirour, 18793 ff.
1267. Vox populi, &c.: cp. Speculum Stultorum, p. 100, l. 4, and see also the note on iii. Prol. 11.
1271. Cp. Conf. Amantis, Prol. 304 ff. and Mirour, 18805.