1148. habent: see note on l. 990.
1185. Que: the antecedent must be ‘virtuti,’ in the next line: ‘solet’ is of course for ‘solebat’; see note on i. 492.
1215. tueri: apparently passive.
1240. deficit vnde sciam, ‘I do not know.’
1305 f. ‘Because justice has departed, therefore peace, who is joined with her, is also gone.’ The reference here and in the next lines is to the Psalms, lxxxiv. 11.
1342. An allusion apparently to the debasement of the coinage. The reading ‘suum’ in G is over an erasure.
1344. Nobile que genuit, ‘she who produced the noble,’ i.e. the gold coin of that name, called so originally because of its purity.
1356. sine lege fera: for this kind of play upon words cp. iv. 128, 215, 243, 509, &c.
1409 ff. It may be noted that the Harleian MS. is defective for ll. 1399-1466. Its readings here would probably agree with those of EDL, &c. SCG have the text written over erasure.
1436. Exiguo ... tempore: for the ablative cp. i. 1568.