98, 99. accord, betrothal. the rose, i.e. of virginity; as in the Romance of the Rose, when interpreted.
99, 100. Marye his spouse. But the Vulgate has; 'Surge, et accipe puerum et matrem eius'; Matt. ii. 13. The author must have been thinking of Matt. i. 18: 'Cum esset desponsata mater eius Maria Ioseph.'
113. al being thinges, all things that exist.
118. prophete; David, in Ps. xcvi. 5: (xcv. 5 in the Vulgate): 'omnes dii gentium daemonia.'
129. This refers back to ch. iv. 71-2, ch. ix. 14, 20, 56.
Chap. X. 5. last objeccion; i.e. his poverty, see ch. iii. 131, iv. 73, ix. 14.
12-8. Imitated from Ch. Boeth. bk. i. pr. 4. 200-17.
18. sayd, i.e. it is said of him.
19. aver, property, wealth; 'lo! how the false man, for the sake of his wealth, is accounted true!'