6192. 'Cucullus non facit monachum'; a proverb.
'Non tonsura facit monachum, nec horrida uestis,
Sed uirtus animi, perpetuusque rigor'; &c.
Alex. de Neckam (Michel).
6198. _cut_, for _cutteth_, cuts; F. trenche. 'Whom Guile cuts into
thirteen branches.' I. e. Guile makes thirteen tonsured men at once;
because the usual number in a convent was thirteen, viz. a prior and twelve
friars.
6204. _Gibbe_, Gib (Gilbert); a common name for a tom-cat. Shak. has
_gib-cat_, 1 Hen. IV. i. 2. 83. The F. text has _Tibers_, whence E.
_Tibert_, _Tybalt_.
6205. A blank line in G.; Th. has--'That awayteth mice and rattes to
killen,' which will not rime, and is spurious. I supply a line which, at
any rate, rimes; _went his wyle_ means 'turns aside his wiliness.' F.
text--'Ne tent qu'a soris et a ras.'
6220. _aresoneth_, addresses him, talks to him.
6223. _what, devel_; i. e. what the devil.
6247. The legend of St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins, who were
martyred by the Huns at Cologne in the middle of the fifth century, is
mentioned by Alban Butler under the date of Oct. 21, and is told in the
Legenda Aurea. The _ciergis_ (in l. 6248) are wax-candles.
6256. Read _mak'th_, and (in 6255) _the god-e_.
6260. _wolf_; F. Sire Isangrin; such is the name given to the wolf in the
Roman de Renard.
6264. _wery_, worry. Thynne has _wirry_. In P. Plowman, C. x. 226, we find
the pl. _wyryeth_, with the various readings _wirieth_, _werien_,
_werrieth_, _wery_. See _wur[gh]en_ in Stratmann.
6267. _treget_, trickery; cf. Frank. Ta. F 1141, 1143.
6279. _trepeget_, a machine for casting stones; see _trepeget_ in
Halliwell, and my note to P. Plowman, A. xii. 91. A _mangonel_ is a similar
machine.
6280. _pensel_, banner; cf. P. Plowm. C. xix. 189. Short for _penoncel_.
6290. _stuffen_, furnish the wall with defenders.
6305. _my lemman_, my sweetheart (Abstinence); see l. 6341.
6317-8. Kaluza supplies the words within square brackets: G. has only 'But
so sligh is the aperceyuyng,' followed by a blank line, in place of which
Th. has the spurious line--'That al to late cometh knowyng.' F. text; 'Mès
tant est fort la decevance Que trop est grief l'apercevance.'