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126 15, 19.Zorobabel, cp. 1 Esdras iii. 10-12, iv. 13.

18, 1.cp. Prov. viii. 11.

19, 9.an infinite treasure, cp. Wisdom vii. 14.

19, 14.Solomon the sun of men; the phrase occurs in Walter Map's "De Nugis Curialium," iv. 3.

20, 5.the law of nature, cp. Renan, Avveroès, p. 55 f.; the passage referred to is quoted by Roger Bacon, Op. Maj. p. 27, and other mediæval writers.

21, 12.they are worth all that thou hast, cp. Gregory xl. Homiliarum in Evangelia, lib. i. Hom. 5: "Aestimationem quippe pretii non habet, sed tamen regnum Dei tantum valet, quantum habes."

22, 1.cp. Matt. xii. 34.

22, 2.the ungrateful cuckoo, from Pliny's Natural History, X. II.

22, 6.Bring it again to mind, cp. Isa. xlvi. 8.

22, 11.as children, cp. I Cor. xiii. 11.

22, 13.partakers of our milk, cp. Heb. v. 13.

23, 4.the goodly garments, cp. Gen. xxvii. 15.

23, 7.as a tablet to be painted on, "tabula depingenda," cp. "tabula rasa."

23, 7.all the household of philosophy are clothed with garments, cp. Prov. xxxi. 21.

23, 10.the fourfold wings of the quadrivials, the quadrivium included the four sciences—"quatuor pennas"—of music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy, the trivium included grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric.

23, 12.we sent you to a friend, cp. Luke xi. 4-8.

23, 16.sojourner,, "viator."

23, 21.ye are a chosen people, cp. Pet. ii. 9.