10909. Cp. Bal. xxx. 2, and Conf. Am. i. 515 ff.
10912. remedie: see note on 296.
10934. Prov. xxviii. 14.
10942. Cp. Bal. xx. 1.
10948. Ovid, Pont. iv. 3. 35. Cp. Conf. Am. vi. 1513, where the original Latin is quoted in the margin and attributed (as here) to ‘Oracius.’
10959. Perhaps a reminiscence of the line in Pamphilus, ‘Ex minima magnus scintilla nascitur ignis.’
10962. The quotation is really from Ovid, Rem. Am. 421, ‘Parva necat morsu spatiosum vipera taurum.’ It has perhaps been confused with Sen. Dial. i. 6. 8, ‘corpora opima taurorum exiguo concidunt volnere.’
10965. Ecclus. xix. 1, ‘qui spernit modica, paulatim decidet.’
10969. Ecclus. v. 4-9, ‘Ne dixeris: Peccavi, et quid mihi accidit triste?’ &c.
11004. ‘And it awaits them after their death.’