1790. Boeth. de Cons. iii. Pr. 3 ff.
1795. de nounstable, ‘instead of transient.’
1824. ‘Often you see evil come (upon him).’ The reference may be to Prov. xvi. 18, or to some similar saying.
1825. Zephaniah iii. 11.
1828. Perhaps Jer. xlviii. 29 ff.
1837. Luke xviii. 9 ff.
1848. par soy despisant: a characteristic use of the gerund for infinitive: cp. 6093.
1849. The references to Solinus in this book are mostly false. Many of the anecdotes may be found in Pliny, but not this. Isidore gives the etymology, but the original of the story here is perhaps Albertus Magnus de Animalibus (quoted by the Delphin editor on Plin. N. H. x. 3).
1868. Perhaps Ps. ci. 5. In any case the last lines of the stanza are an addition by our author to the quotation.
1883. fait a reprendre, ‘deserves to be blamed’: cp. 5055, 9687, 12238, &c., and see the examples quoted by Burguy, Grammaire, ii. 167 f.