. . . . . .

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.