22975 f. Apparently the meaning is ‘And the sorrow that David felt for his sins is now changed.’
22981. si fretz que sage, see note on 16700.
22982. Perhaps Cic. de Off. i. 68, ‘Non est autem consentaneum, qui metu non frangatur, eum frangi cupiditate.’
22984 ff. Cp. Vox Clam. vi. 807-810.
22995. Is. xxviii. 1.
23006. 2 Sam. xvi. 5 ff.
23011. 1 Sam. xxiv.
23021. 2 Kings xix. The number of the slain is given in the Bible as 185,000.
23041 ff. For Justice and Mercy as royal virtues cp. Conf. Am. vii. 2695 ff., where they are the third and fourth points of policy, the first and fifth being Truth and Chastity, which have been dealt with in 22753 ff., and the second Liberality, which may have been spoken of in the lines which are lost.
23053. Sen. Clem. iii. 2 ff.