‘Ne noceas tibi, sic aliis prodesse memento.’
15954. Cic. de Off. i. 43, ‘Videndum est igitur ut ea liberalitate utamur, quae prosit amicis, nemini noceat,’ &c.
15963. ‘Attemprance’ however is already in the retinue of Justice, see 15232, and ‘Discrecioun,’ who is the third daughter of Humility, 11562, and therefore herself the mistress of a household, is also in the employ of Abstinence, 16323.
15985. Ps. xx. 4 (Vulg. xix. 5), ‘Tribuat tibi secundum cor tuum,’ the meaning of which is not what our author supposes.
15997. Cic. de Off. i. 21, ‘Sunt autem privata nulla natura ... naturam debemus ducem sequi, communes utilitates in medium afferre,’ &c.
16011. Matt. xiv. 15 ff.
16022. Matt. xxii. 21.
16025. Gen. xxviii. 22.
16026. ainçois, often used, as here, for ‘but.’
16045. Ecclus. xli. 15, but the special application is by our author.