2858. _The seconde book of Kinges_, i. e. Liber secundus Regum, now called 'the second book of Samuel.' The reference is to 2 Sam. xi. 25, [222] where the Vulgate has: 'uarius enim euentus est belli; nunc hunc et nunc illum consumit gladius.' The A. V. varies. 2860. _In as muchel_; Fr. text:--'tant comme il puet bonnement.' This accounts for _goodly_, i. e. meetly, fitly, creditably. Cotgrave has: '_Bonnement_, well, fitly, aptly, handsomely, conveniently, orderly, to the purpose.' 2861. _Salomon_; rather Jesus son of Sirach. 'He that loveth danger shall perish therein'; Ecclus. iii. 26. 2863. _The werre ... nothing_, 'war does not please you at all.' 2866. _Seint Iame_ is a curious error for _Senek_, Seneca. For the Fr. text has:--'Seneque dit en ses escrips,' according to Mätzner; and MS. Reg. 19 C. xi (leaf 63, col. 2) has 'Seneques.' There has clearly been confusion between _Seneques_ and _Seint iaques_. Hence the use of the pl. _epistles_ is correct. The reference is to Seneca, Epist. 94, § 46; but Seneca, after all, is merely quoting Sallust:--'Nam concordia paruae res crescunt, discordia maximae dilabuntur'; Sallust, Jugurtha, 10. 2870. From Matt. v. 9. 2872. _Brige_, strife, contention; F. _brigue_, Low Lat. _briga._ '_Brigue_, s. f. ... debate, contention, altercation, litigious wrangling about any matter'; Cotgrave. See _Brigue_ in the New E. Dict. 2876. Here Hl. has _pryde_ and _despysing_ for _homlinesse_ and _dispreysinge_, thus spoiling the sense. The allusion is to our common saying--Familiarity breeds contempt. 2879. _Syen_, saw; Cm. seyen; Ln. sawe; Cp. saugh. 2881. Lat. text (p. 107):--'scriptum est enim, Semper ab aliis dissensio incipiat, a te autem reconciliatio.' From Martinus Dumiensis, De Moribus, Sent. 49. 2882. _The prophete_, i. e. David; Ps. xxxiv. 14. 2883. The words 'as muchel as in thee is' are an addition, due to the Fr. text:--'tant comme tu pourras.'--Mr. 2884. The use of _to_ after _pursue_ is unusual; Mätzner compares _biseke to_, in 2940 below and 2306 above. 2886. From Prov. xxviii. 14. 2891. Fr. text:--'Pour ce dit le philosophe, que les troubles ne sont pas bien cler voyans.' Cf. the Fr. proverb:--'À l'oeil malade la lumière nuit, an eie distempered cannot brook the light; sick thoughts cannot indure the truth'; Cotgrave. 2895. From Prov. xxviii. 23. 2897. This quotation is merely an expansion of the former part of Eccles. vii. 3, viz. 'sorrow is better than laughter'; the latter part of the same verse appears in 2900, immediately below. 2901. _I shal not conne answere_, I shall not be able to answer; Fr. text:--'ie ne sauroie respondre.'--Mr. 2909. From Prov. xvi. 7. 2915. Fr. text:--'ie met tout mon fait en vostre disposition.'--Mr. [223] 2925. Referring to Ps. xx. 4 (Vulgate)--'in benedictionibus dulcedinis'; A. V.--'with the blessings of goodness,' Ps. xxi. 3.