3637. Ecclus. xxviii. 15 ff.
3667. Perhaps Job v. 12.
3679. Micah ii. 1, ‘Vae, qui cogitatis inutile.’
3685. Jer. iv. 4, ‘ne forte egrediatur ut ignis indignatio mea, et succendatur, et non sit qui extinguat, propter malitiam cogitationum vestrarum.’
3721. Cp. Conf. Am. ii. 401,
‘For as the Netle which up renneth
The freisshe rede Roses brenneth,
And makth hem fade and pale of hewe,
Riht so this fals Envious hewe’ &c.
The opposition of rose and nettle is common in our author, e.g. Bal. xxxvi. 3, xlviii. 1, Vox Clam. vii. 181.