‘Now some one to support them on each side The modern shepherds need’;

that is to say, on the right and on the left;

‘And some to lead them,

So heavy are they’;

‘And some to lead them, So heavy are they’;

that is, so fat and corpulent. I have seen many such at the court of Rome. And this is in contrast with the leanness of Peter and Paul before mentioned.

‘And to hold their trains,’

‘And to hold their trains,’