252. _to paye with his dette_, to pay his debt with.

253-4. This is evidently the same passage from St. Bernard as that referred

to in Hampole's Pricke of Conscience, l. 5653:--'Sicut non peribit capillus

de capite, ita non erit momentum de toto tempore, de quo sane non

conqueratur.'

258. _mowes_, grimaces. '_Mowe_, or skorne'; Prompt. Parv. p. 346. Cf.

Troil. iv. 7.

273. This probably refers to Ps. lxix, which is frequently interpreted to

refer to the sufferings of Christ; see vv. 7, 9, 18-21.

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