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Rh suggested by a legal maxim which he found in Bracton, derived no doubt through Azo from the Digest:—"Debemus accipere metum non  vani vel meticulosi hominis sed talem qui cadere possit in virum constantem."

31, 22.cp. Martial i. 39. Quern recitas, meus est, O Fidentine! libellus; Sed male quum recitas, incipit esse tuus." 32, 8.Carmentis, cp. Ch. VIII.

32, 11.Bologna, one of the great Universities.

32, 13.treacherous copyists, cp. Chaucer's verses to Adam Scrivener.

33, 3.that which is against nature, cp. Rom. i. 25-26.

33, 10.sold our people for nought, Ps. xliv. 12.

34.The title in the original is as follows:—"Querimonia librorum contra religiosos possessionatos," i.e. "possessioners," as contrasted with the mendicant friars.

34, 5.between the hours of prayer, "inter horas canonicas"; the day was divided into eight periods of three hours, marked by as many acts of devotion.

34, 10.full of cherubic letters, "cherubicis libris plena," the reference is probably to the brilliant miniatures and ornamentations of old manuscripts; perhaps only to the general beauty—"angelical."

34, 14.Martha nor Mary; Martha and Mary were treated as types of the active and contemplative life; similarly, Rachel and Leah. "Ubi nee meretur Martha corripi nec Maria"; the old edd. read "corrumpi."

35, 11.not bread baked in the ashes,"panes non subcinericeos"; cp. Ezek. iv. 12.

35, 20.that we might catch the young foxes, cp. Song of Songs, ii. 15.

36, 2.the choice trappings of war-horses; "dextrariorum chaleræ præelectæ."

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