Ac now is Religioun a ridere And a rennere aboute, A ledere of ladies, And a lond biggere; Poperith on a palfrey To toune and to toune; A bidowe or a biselard He berith be his side; Godis flessh and his fet And hise fyve woundis Arn more in his mynde Than the memorie of his foundours. This is the lif of this lordis That lyven shulde with Do-bet, And wel awey wers, And I shulde al telle. I wende that kinghed and knighthed, And caiseris with erlis, Wern Do-wel and Do-bet And Do-best-of-hem-alle. For I have seighe it myself, And siththen red it aftir, How Crist counseilleth the comune, And kenneth hem this tale, _Super cathedram Moisi sederunt principes_ For-thi I wende that tho wyes Wern Do-best-of-alle. I nile not scorne, etc. 6223. _an heepe of houndes._ "Walter de Suffield, bishop of Norwich, bequeathed by will his pack of hounds to the king, in 1256. Blomefield's Norf. ii, 347. See Chaucer's Monke, Prol. v, 165. This was a common topic of satire. It occurs again fol. xxvii, a [l. 3321, of the present Edition]. See Chaucer's Testament of Love, page 492, col. ii, Urr. The Archdeacon of Richmond, on his visitation, comes to the priory of Bridlington in Yorkshire, in 1216, with ninety-seven horses, twenty dogs, and three hawks. Dugd. Mon. ii, 65." WARTON. 6251. Psal. xix, 8. 6259. _the abbot of Abyngdone._ There was a very ancient and famous abbey at Abingdon in Berkshire. Geoffrey of Monmouth was abbot there. It was the house into which the monks, strictly so called, were first introduced in England, and is, therefore, very properly introduced as the representative of English monachism. 6266. Isai. xiv, 4, 5. 6289. Ecclesiasticus x, 10. 6291. Catonis Distich. iv, 4. Dilige denari, sed parce dilige, formam; Quem nemo sanctus nec honestus captat ab ære. 6327. Colos. iii, 1. 6353. _moechaberis._ A mistake in the original MS. for _necaberis_, as it is rightly printed in Crowley's edition. 6372. John iii, 13. 6414. Matth. xxiii, 2. Super cathedram Moysi sederunt Scribæ et Pharisæi. 6440. Psal. xxxv, 8. 6476. Ecclesiastes ix, 1. 6504. Matth. x, 18. The quotation is not quite literal. 6528. For _idiotæ irapiunt_, read _idiotæ vi rapiunt_: the error was caused accidentally in the printing, and has escaped in the present edition. 6571. Matth. xx, 4. 6741. John iii, 3. 6755. Matth. vii, 1. 6764. Psal. l, 21. 6815. Isai. lv, 1. 6825. Mark xvi, 16.