‘Euolat ancipiter ad prede lucra, suisque
Deseruit dominis in rapiendo cybum.
Sic multi dominis famulando suis, ad eorum
Nutum pauperibus dampna ferendo nocent.’
725. presul, ‘the bishop.’
740. The expression ‘Cuius enim’ for ‘Eius enim’ occurs more than once, e.g. l. 1238: cp. vii. 372. It is found also in the Confessio Amantis, Latin Verses after vii. 1984, but was there corrected in the third recension.
765. stabiles: apparently used in a bad sense.
793 f. Cp. Aurora, f. 96 vo,
‘Exiguus magnum vicit puer ille Golyam,
Nam virtus humilis corda superba domat.’