13264 ff. ‘For, simply because she loves God, no adversity of present pain can harm her.’
13301. ou balance, i.e. ‘au balance.’
13302. Cp. 25607.
13309. This is Fulgentius, Bishop of Ruspa in the sixth century. The passage quoted is from Serm. iii. 6, ‘Caritas igitur est omnium fons et origo bonorum, munimen egregium, via quae ducit ad caelum,’ &c. He is cited also in l. 13861, but there I cannot give the reference.
13333. Greg. Hom. in Ezech. vii. It is a commentary on Ezek. xl.
13361. Cp. Isid. Etym. xvii. 7. 33, ‘Lignum vero iucundi odoris est, nec a tinea unquam exterminatur.’
13435. The philosopher here may be supposed to be Socrates, of whom the Middle Ages knew next to nothing except as a patient husband: cp. 4168.
13441. Phil. iv. 5, ‘Modestia vestra nota sit omnibus hominibus.’
13475 f. ‘And yet she does not omit to punish according to right.’
13485. Cato, Distich. i. 3,