"By ihesus with here jeweles · youre justices she shendeth,[864] And lith[865] agein the lawe · and letteth hym the gate, That feith may noughte have his forth[866] · here floreines go so thikke, She ledeth the lawe as hire list · and lovedays maketh And doth men lese thorw hire love · that law myghte wynne, The mase[867] for a mene man · though he mote[868] hir eure. Law is so lordeliche · and loth to make ende, Without presentz or pens[869] · she pleseth wel fewe.
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For pore men mowe[870] have no powere · to pleyne[871] hem though thei smerte; Suche a maistre is Mede · amonge men of gode."[872]
[840] Isa. v. 8.
[841] Mr. Congreve, in his Essay on Slavery appended to his edition of Aristotle's _Politics_, p. 496, points out that all the servile wars from which Rome suffered arose, not in the capital, but in the provinces, notably in Sicily.
[842] See above, pp. 32 ff.
[843] Isa. v. 8.
[844] Cf. Amos v. 13.
[845] "Fuit." But whether this is a gloss, as of the name of the dirge or of the tune, or a part of the text, is uncertain. Query: ואמר ינהה ונחה.
[846] So LXX., and adds: "with the measuring rope."
[847] Or (after the LXX.) _there is none to give it back to me_.
[848] Uncertain. "Is the house of Jacob...?" (Wellhausen). "What a saying, O house of Jacob?" (Ewald and Guthe). In the latter case the interruption of the rich ceases with the previous line, and this one is the beginning of the prophet's answer to them.
[849] So we may conjecture the very obscure details of a verse whose general meaning, however, is evident. For ואתמול read ל ואתם. The LXX. takes שלמה as _peace_ and not as _cloak_, for which there seems to be no place beside אדר (or אדרת). Wellhausen with further alterations renders: "But ye come forward as enemies against My people; from good friends ye rob their ..., from peaceful wanderers war-booty."
[850] Wellhausen reads בני for בית, "tenderly bred children," another of the many emendations which he proposes in the interests of complete parallelism. See the Preface to this volume.
[851] Little pigs.
[852] Fellows.
[853] A horse.
[854] Servants.
[855] Fairs, markets.
[856] A tally.
[857] Am not.
[858] Scarcely.
[859]
_I will gather, gather thee, O Jacob, in mass,_ _I will bring, bring together the Remnant of Israel!_ _I will set them like sheep in a fold,_ _Like a flock in the midst of the pasture._ _They shall hum with men!_ _The breach-breaker hath gone up before them:_ _They have broken the breach, have carried the gate, and are gone out by it;_ _And their king hath passed on before them, and Jehovah at their head._
[860] See above, p. 33.
[861] Nöldeke, _Sketches from Eastern History_, translated by Black, pp. 134 f.
[862] _Arabia Deserta_, I. 607.
[863] _Id._, II. 20.
[864] Ruins.
[865] Lieth.
[866] Course.
[867] Confusion.
[868] Summon.
[869] Pence.
[870] May.
[871] Complain.
[872] Substance or property.