7609. Col. iii. 5, ‘avaritiam, quae est simulacrorum servitus.’
7611. 2 Kings xxi. 21 ff.
7621 ff. Cp. Conf. Am. v. 363 ff., where the same comparison is made in fuller detail.
7640. The author referred to as ‘Marcial’ here and in ll. 15505, 15949, is in fact Godfrey of Winchester, popularly called by the name of the epigrammatist whom he not unhappily imitated. He was a native of Cambrai, and prior of St. Swithin’s in the twelfth century. His epigrams are repeatedly quoted under the name of Martial by Albertano of Brescia in the Liber Consolationis. They will be found in Wright’s Satirical Poets of the Twelfth Century (Rolls series). The reference here is to Ep. cxxxvi,
‘Non sibi, non aliis prodest, dum vivit, avarus:
Et prodest aliis et sibi, dum moritur.’
7645 ff. Cp. Conf. Am. v. 49 ff., a very close parallel,
‘To seie hou such a man hath good,
Who so that reson understod,
It is impropreliche seid,