. . . . . .
And rage he couthe and pleye as a whelpe,
In love-dayes, ther couthe he mochil helpe.
For ther was he not like a cloysterer
With a thredbare cope, as a pore scoler,
But he was like a maister or a pope.—Cant. T. 249, 259.
[5646]. The quotation is made up from Job xxi, 7; and Jerem. xii, 2.
[5651]. Psal. lxxii, 12.
[5659]. Psal. x, 4. Quoniam quæ perfecisti, destruxerunt: justus autem quid fecit?
[5739]. Psal. cxxxi, 6.