621. _lever me were_, it would be preferable for me.

631. 'After misery comes help.' So in the Proverbs of Hendyng, as said

above, in note to l. 32. Trench, in his book On Proverbs, quotes a Hebrew

proverb:--When the tale of bricks is doubled, Moses comes.

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