383 f. This reference to Ovid seems to be with regard to what follows about the art of preserving and improving beauty. Some of it is from the Ars Amatoria, and some from Neckam, De Vita Monachorum. For ‘tenent,’ meaning ‘belong,’ cp. iii. 584.
399-402. Taken with slight changes from Ars Amat. iii. 163-166.
403. Cp. Metam. ii. 635.
405. Cp. Ars Amat. iii. 179.
407. Cp. Ars Amat. iii. 185.
413-416. De Vita Monachorum, p. 186.
421-428. De Vita Monachorum, p. 189.
450. The line (in the form ‘Illa quidem fatuos,’ &c.) is written over an erasure in the Glasgow MS.
454. ‘interius’ is written over an erasure in HG.
461. Vt quid, ‘Why.’