26851. ‘For that in which he is alone to blame’: ‘dont que’ used for ‘dont,’ cp. 1779.
26857. Job v. 6, ‘Nihil in terra sine causa fit’: it is different in A. V.
26869. This is a citation which occurs in all the three books of our author: cp. Conf. Am. Prol. 945 ff. and Vox Clam. vii. 639 ff. In both places the argument is the same as here. The quotation is from Greg. Hom. in Evang. ii. 39, ‘Omnis autem creaturae aliquid habet homo. Habet namque commune esse cum lapidibus, vivere cum arboribus, sentire cum animalibus, intelligere cum angelis.’ Cp. Moral. vi. 16.
26885. Et en aler. Similarly in the Vox Clam. vii. 641 motion is made one of the five senses to the exclusion of smelling,
‘Sentit et audit homo, gustat, videt, ambulat.’
26927. maisq’il le compiere, ‘that he should abye it’: for this use of ‘maisqe’ instead of ‘que’ cp. 26112.
26931. Aristotle speaks of animals as microcosms (e. g. Phys. viii. 2) and argues from them to the μέγας κόσμος, but of course the quotation here is at second hand.
26934. Cp. Vox Clam. vii. 645 ff., ‘Sic minor est mundus homo, qui fert singula solus,’ &c.
26955. The rhyme requires ‘mer et fieu’ for ‘fieu et mer.’
26989. Lev. xxvi. 3 ff.