1077-1080. These four lines are from the Aurora, f. 44 vo.
1113 f. Ovid, Ars Amat. iii. 595 f. (where we have ‘sequatur’). The original application is to the effects of rivalry in stimulating the passion of lovers. For the use of ‘sequetur’ here, apparently as a subjunctive, compare l. 1946, ‘Inueniet tardam ne sibi lentus opem.’
1118-1124. These lines are almost entirely borrowed from the Aurora, (MS. Bodley 822) f. 21 vo.
1124. In the Glasgow MS. ‘Est’ has been here altered to ‘Et.’
1145-1150. Almost verbatim from Aurora, f. 93 vo.
1169. S has here in the margin in a somewhat later hand than that of the text, ‘Nota hic quattuor neccessaria episcopo.’
1171 f. Cp. Aurora, f. 44 vo,
‘Est olei natura triplex, lucet, cybat, unguit;
Hec tria mitratum debet habere capud.’
1183 f. Cp. Aurora, f. 44 vo,