Mais de bon enseignment,

Que en escriptur ai trove

E de latin translatee, &c. &c."

Amongst them is the following:—

"Meux valt un chien sein e fort

Qe un leoun freid e mort;

E meux valt povert od bountex

Qe richeste od malueiste."

Jesus, the Son of Sirak, is not, however, the authority for this proverb; it occurs in the 9th chapter of Ecclesiastes and 4th verse.

And now, to ask a question in turn, what is meant by "auctorite del Dibil?"