This is adapted by our author to his own purpose, but as his meaning is altogether different, some obscurity results, and he does not make it clear to us how the biter is bit.
113. Metam. v. 606.
115-118. Cp. Metam. vi. 527 ff.
133. In the Glasgow MS. ‘locuplex’ has been altered to the more familiar ‘locuples.’
141 f. Is. v. 8, ‘Vae qui coniungitis domum ad domum et agrum agro copulatis usque ad terminum loci: numquid habitabitis vos soli in medio terrae?’ The same text is quoted in the Mirour, 24541 ff.
144. By comparison with Mirour, 24580 ff. we may see that the dissipation of the property by the son is here alleged as a proof that it has been ill acquired:
‘Qu’ils font pourchas a la senestre
Le fin demoustre la verrour.’
176. forum, i.e. the market price.
188. que foret equa, ‘(the balance) which should be fair’: so also ‘foret’ below, l. 190.