2545. _Tullius._ This refers to what has already preceded in 2391-2400, the passage referred to being one from Cicero's De Officiis, ii. 5, where we are bidden to consider several points, viz. (1) 'quid in quaque re uerum sincerumque sit; (2) quid consentaneum cuique rei sit; (3) quid consequens; (4) ex quo quidque gignatur; (5) quae cuiusque rei caussa sit.' All these five points are taken below in due order; viz. (1) in 2546; (2) in 2550; (3) in 2577; (4) in 2580; and (5) in 2583. 2546. _Trouthe_; referring to _uerum_ in clause (1) in the last note. 2550. _Consentinge_; i. e. _consentaneum_ in clause (2) in note to 2545. Cf. 2571. MS. Hl. has here the false reading _couetyng_, but in l. 2571 it has _consentynge_. 2551. Lat. text:--'qui et quot et quales.' Thus _whiche_ means 'of what sort.' The words _and whiche been they_, omitted in MS. E. only, are thus seen to be necessary; cf. l. 2552, where the phrase is repeated. 2558. _Cosins germayns_; Lat. 'consanguineos germanos.' _Neigh kinrede_, relations near of kin; cf. 'nis but a fer kinrede' in 2565. 2561. _Reward_, regard, care; as above, in 2449; (see the note). 2565. _Litel sib_, slightly related; _ny sib_, closely related. Cf. 'ne on his mæges láfe þe swa _néah sib_ wære,' nor with the relict of his kinsman who was so near of kin; Laws of King Cnut, § vii; in Thorpe's Ancient Laws, i. 364. 2570. _As the lawe_; Sundby refers to Justinian's Codex, VIII. iv. 1. 2573. _That nay_; Fr. text--'que non.' 2577. _Consequent_; i. e. 'consequens' in clause (3), note to 2545. 2580. _Engendringe_; i. e. 'ex quo quidque gignatur' in clause (4), note to 2545. 2582. Mätzner says this is corrupt; but it is quite right, though obscure. The sense is--'and, out of the taking of vengeance in return for that, would arise another vengeance'; &c. _Engendre_ is here taken [216] in the sense of 'be engendred' or 'breed'; see the New E. Dict. The Fr. text is clearer: 'de la vengence _se engendrera_ autre vengence.' 2583. _Causes_; i. e. 'caussa' in clause (5), note to 2545. 2585. The Lat. text omits _Oriens_, which seems to be here used as synonymous with _longinqua_. 'Caussa igitur iniuriae tibi illatae duplex fuit _efficiens_, scilicet _remotissima_ et _proxima_.' 2588. 'Occasio uero illius caussae, quae dicitur _caussa accidentalis_, fuit odium,' &c. So below, the Lat. text has _caussa materialis_, _caussa formalis_, and _caussa finalis_. 2591. _It letted nat_, it tarried not; Lat. text, 'nec per eos remansit.' This intransitive use of _letten_ is awkward and rare. It occurs again in P. Plowman, C. ii. 204, xx. 76, 331. 2594. _Book of Decrees_; Sundby refers us to the Decretum Gratiani; P. ii, Caussa 1, Qu. 1. c. 25:--'uix bono peraguntur exitu, quae malo sunt inchoata principio.' 2596. _Thapostle_, the apostle Paul. The Lat. text refers expressly to the First Epistle to the Corinthians, meaning 1 Cor. iv. 5; but Chaucer has accommodated it to Rom. xi. 33.