934. Matth. vii, 17. _bonus_ (for _bona_) is the reading of the MS. Perhaps it was thought allowable to use the masculine thus before a fem. noun beginning with _a_, for the sake of euphony, as the French still write _mon amie_, instead of _ma amie_, and the like. Whitaker's text has here-- _Talis pater, talis filius._ For shal never brere bere Beries as a vyne, No on crokyd kene thorne Kynde fygys wexe. _Bona arbor bonum fructum facit._ The lines which follow differ considerably in the two texts. 958. Psalm xiv, 1. 991-994. Instead of these lines, the following are substituted in the second Trin. Coll. MS.:-- Sire Symonye is assent To asele the chartres, That Fals and Favel Be any fyn halden, And feffe Mede therwith In mariage for evere. Ther nas halle ne hous To herberwe the peple, That iche feld nas ful Of folk al aboute. In myddis a mounteyne At myd-morewe tide Was pight up a pavyloun Proud for the nones, And ten thousand of tentis Teldit beside, Of knightes of cuntrés, Of comeres aboute, For sisours, for somonours, etc. And the rest, as far as line 1100, differs very much in the two MSS. 1103. _of Banneburies sokne, | Reynald the reve, | and the redyngkynges menye, | Munde the mylnere._ Whit. 1128. Luke x, 7. 1177. _With floryns ynowe._ Edward III had issued, not very long before the date of this poem, the first extensive English gold coinage, to which he gave the Italian name of florins, derived originally from that of the city of Florence. 1204. _to Westmynstre_: _i. e._ to the courts of law which were held there. 1404. _A moton of golde._ A mutton (mouton) was a small French coin of gold, which bore the stamp of a lamb or sheep. See Ducange, v. _Multo_. 1501. Matth. vi, 3. 1523. Regrating, or the buying up of provisions and other things to make extravagant profits by retailing them, was one of the great sources of oppression of the poor by the rich in the middle ages, and was a constant subject of popular complaint. 1529. Whitaker's text adds here,-- Thei have no puteye of the puple That parcel-mele mote biggen, Thauh thei take hem untydy thyng, Thei hold it no treson; And thauh thei fulle nat ful, That for lawe y-seelde, He gripeth therfor as grete As for the grete treuthe.