190. quam prius, for ‘prius quam,’ as frequently: cp. ll. 202, 292.
199. This line is from Ovid, Metam. vii. 826, ‘Credula res amor est,’ &c., and is quite without sense as it stands here: cp. Vox Clamantis, v. 165.
203 f. 1 Cor. vi. 18.
246 ff. Cp. Vox Clamantis, vi. 445 ff.
250. semel nisi, i.e. ‘once only’ for ‘non nisi semel’: cp. Vox Clamantis, iii. 22.
312. bis deno Ricardi regis in anno. The twentieth year of Richard II is from June 22, 1396 to the same date of 1397. The arrests of Arundel and Gloucester took place in the first few days of the twenty-first year.
DE LUCIS SCRUTINIO (p. [355])
The Ecton MS. (E) gives a different form of the marginal notes, as follows: 6. Nota de luce prelatorum et curatorum. 18. Nota de luce professorum. 30. Nota de luce regum. 44. Nota de luce procerum. 51. Nota de luce militum. 58. Nota de luce legistarum et causidicorum. 67. Nota de luce mercatorum. 79. Nota de luce vulgari in patria. 89. Nota quod Iohannes Gower auctor huius libri hic in fine tenebras deplangens pro luce optinenda deum exorat.
25 ff. See Praise of Peace, 225 ff.
64 f. Cp. Vox Clamantis, v. 703.