The definition given in Piers Ploughman is taken from the Dialogues of Secundus, where it is thus expressed:--"Quid est paupertas? Odibile bonum, sanitatis mater, curarum remotio, absque sollicitudine semita, sapientiæ reparatrix, negotium sine damno, intractabilis substantia, possessio absque calumnia, incerta fortuna, sine sollicitudine felicitas." (MS. Reg. 9 A xiv, fol. 140 v^o.) See also Roger de Hoveden, p. 816, and Vincent de Beauvais, Spec. Hist. lib. x, c. 71. 9517. _the paas of Aultone._ Whitaker has _Haultoun_, and says that this pass is Halton "in Cheshire, formerly infamous to a proverb as a haunt of robbers." 9529. _Cantabit, etc._ The author has modified, or the scribes have corrupted, the well-known line of Juvenal, Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator. 9665. These definitions will be found in Isidore, Etymol. lib. xl, c. 1, and Different, lib. ii, c. 29. They are repeated by Alcuin, De Anim. Rat. N. x, p. 149, _Anima_ est, dum vivificat; dum contemplatur, _spiritus_ est; dum sentit, _sensus_ est; dum sapit, _animus_ est; dum intelligit, _mens_ est; dum discernit, _ratio_ est; dum consentit, _voluntas_ est; dum recordatur, _memoria_ est. 9708. Prov. xxv, 27. 9740. Epist. ad Rom. xii, 3. 9751. _the seven synnes._ The seven deadly sins were--pride, anger, envy, sloth, covetousness, gluttony, and lechery. "Now ben they cleped chiefetaines, for as moche as they be chiefe, and of hem springen alle other sinnes. The rote of thise sinnes than is pride, the general rote of alle harmes. For of this rote springen certain braunches: as, ire, envie, accidie or slouthe, avarice or coveitise, (to commun understonding) glotonie, and lecherie: and eche of thise chief sinnes hath his braunches and his twigges." Chaucer, Persones Tale, p. 40. 9766. Psal. xcvi, 7; iv, 3. 9828. _in Latyn._ The monks had collections of comparisons, similitudes, proverbs, &c., to be introduced in their sermons, and even when preaching in English they generally quoted them in Latin. This I suppose to be the meaning of the expression here. 9918. Matth. xviii, 3. 9934. 1 Corinth. xiii, 4. 9946. 1 Corinth, xiii, 12. 9957. _a tunicle of Tarse._ Tarse was the name given to a kind of silk, said to have been brought from a country of that name on the borders of Cathai, or China. Chaucer (Cant. T. l. 2162), describing "the king of Inde," says-- His coote armour was of a cloth of Tars, Cowched of perlys whyte, round and grete. Ducange (v. _Tarsicus_) quotes a visitation of the treasury of St. Paul's, London, in 1295, where there is mention of Tunica et dalmatica de _panno Indico Tarsico_ Besantato de auro, and of a Casula de _panno Tarsico_. 10004. Psal. vi, 7. 10009. Psal. l, 19. 10062. Matth. vi, 16. 10069. _Edmond and Edward._ St. Edmund the martyr, king of East Anglia, and king Edward the Confessor. 10124. Psal. iv, 9.