7944. _Avynet._ In the 14th and 15th centuries, as any grammar was called a _Donet_, because the treatise of Donatus was the main foundation of them all, so, from Esop and Avienus from whom the materials were taken, any collection of fables was called an _Avionet_ or an _Esopet_. The title of one of these collections in a MS. of the Bibl. du Roi at Paris is, _Compilacio Ysopi alata cum Avionetto, cum quibusdam addicionibus et moralitatibus_. (_Robert, Fabl. Inéd. Essay_, p. clxv.) Perhaps the reference in the present case is to the fable of the Peacock who complained of his voice, the 39th in the collection which M. Robert calls _Ysopet_, in the morality to which are the following lines:-- Les riches conteront Des biens qu'il aront En ce siecle conquis. Cil qui petit ara, De petit contera Au Roy de paradis. Qui vit en povreté, Sans point d'iniquité, Moult ara grant richesse Es cieux, en paradis, O dieux et ses amis Seront joyeux et aise. 7961. Whitaker's text reads here:-- Thus Porfirie and Plato, And poetes menye, Lykneth in here logyk The leeste fowel oute; And whether hii be saf other nat saf The sothe wot not clergie, Ne of Sortes ne of Salamon No scripture can telle, Wether thei be in helle other in hevene, Other Aristotle the wise. 7961. _Aristotle, the grete clerk._ From the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries the influence of Aristotle's writings in the schools was all-powerful. It was considered almost an impiety to go against his authority. He was indeed "the great clerk." 7967. _Sortes._ I suppose this is an abbreviated form of the name Socrates. It occurs again in one of the poems printed among the Latin Poetry attributed to Walter Mapes (Camden Society's Publication), which has the following lines:-- Adest ei bajulus cui nomen Gnato, Præcedebat logicum gressu fatigato, Dorso ferens sarcinam ventre tensus lato, Plenam vestro dogmate, o _Sortes et Plato_. 7987. 1 Peter iv, 18. 8015. Psalm xxii, 4. 8073. _a maister._ This word was generally used in the scholastic ages in a restricted sense, to signify one who had taken his degrees in the schools--a master of arts. 8103. Luke x, 7. 8133-8137. These are the indications of different Psalms. Psalm li begins with the words, _Miserere mei, Deus_, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam. The thirty-first Psalm commences with the words, _Beati quorum_ remissæ sunt iniquitates, _et quorum tecta sunt peccata_. _Beatus vir_, is the beginning of Psalm i. The fifth verse of Psalm xxxi contains the words _Dixi: Confitebor_ adversum me injustitiam meam Domino. 8141. Psalm xxxi, 6. 8145. Psalm l, 19. 8153. Isaiah v, 22. 8155. Whitaker's text has-- And ete meny sondry metes, Mortrews and poddynges, Braun and blod of the goos, Bacon and colhopes. The second Trin. Coll. MS. has-- And sette many sundry metis, Mortreux and puddynges, Braun and blood of gees, Bacoun and colopis. 8167. 2 Corinth. xi, 24, 25, 27.