639 ff. This quotation from Gregory appears also in the Mirour de l’Omme, 26869 ff., and the Confessio Amantis, Prol. 945 ff.
645. minor est mundus homo, ‘man is a microcosm’: cp. Mirour, 26929 ff.
647 ff. Mirour, 26953 ff.
684. The Glasgow MS. has ‘queris’ written over an erasure.
685-694. From Neckam, De Vita Monachorum, pp. 197 f.
699-708. With slight changes from De Vita Monachorum, pp. 193 f.
793. nuper to be taken with ‘auaricia,’ ‘the avarice of former times’; ‘modo’ with ‘prestat.’
872. Cumque, for ‘Cum’: cp. l. 349.
892. Numquid, for ‘Nonne’: cp. l. 484, and see note on v. 280. For the idea cp. Mirour, 1784 ff. It is originally from Augustine.
909 f. From De Vita Monachorum, p. 178.