Obs. [Known only in Langland; according to Herbert Coleridge (Trans. Philol. Soc., 1860) probably the last syllables of in sæcula sæculorum ‘for ever and ever,’ the concluding words of the Gloria Patri; Mätzner suggests a corruption of L. corollarium COROLLARY.] The conclusion, corollary or ‘moral.’
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. III. 264. Þe Culorum of þis clause [B. and C. cas] kepe I not to schewe. Ibid. (1377), B. X. 409. Þe culorum of his clause curatoures is to mene.
1399. Rich. Redeles, Prol. 72. And constrewe ich clause with þe culorum. Ibid., IV. 61. No blame serued … Ho so toke good kepe to þe culorum.
