81. famulers, household servants; borrowed from Chaucer's familieres in the same prose, l. 29.
82. sypher, cipher in arithmetic. Though in itself it signifies nothing, yet appended to a preceding figure it gives that figure a tenfold value. Cf. Richard the Redeless, iv. 53-4:—
'Than satte summe as siphre doth in awgrym
That noteth a place, and no-thing availeth.'
92. the blynde; alluding to a common fable.
95-6. From Ch. Boeth. bk. iii. pr. 5. 32-4.
98-9; 101-3. From the same; ll. 41-6.
105-8. From the same, ll. 48-51.
109-12. From Ch. Boeth. bk. iii. met. 5.