4389. M. Méon here quotes a Latin proverb:--'Qui plus castigat, plus amore
ligat.'
4432. G. de Lorris here ended his portion of the poem (containing 4070
lines), which he did not live to complete. His last line is:--
'A poi que ne m'en desespoir.'
When Jean de Meun, more than forty years later, began his continuation, he
caught up the last word, commencing thus:--
'Desespoir, las! ge non ferai,
Jà ne m'en desespererai.'
4464. _a-slope_, on the slope, i. e. insecure, slippery.
4472. Perhaps _stounde_ should be _wounde_. F. 'S'ele ne me fait
desdoloir.' _Stounde_ arose from repeating the _st_ in _staunche_.
4499. _enforced_, made stronger, i. e. increased.
4510. Read _simpilly_; this trisyllabic form is Northern, occurring in
Barbour's Bruce, i. 331, xvii. 134. Cf. l. 3861.
4525. 'Who was to blame?' Cf. l. 4529.
4532. _for to lowe_, to appraise; hence, to be valued at. F. 'De la value
d'une pome.' See _Allow_ in the New E. Dict.
4549. _The develles engins_, the contrivances of the devil.
4556. _yolden_, requited; cf. Somp. Ta. D 2177.