PROLOGUE
1, 7.Ps. cxvi. 12.
2, 8.the Sevenfold Spirit "septiformis spiritus," first used by St. Augustine; cp. Isa. xi. 23, and Rev. i. 4.
2, 9.that it may burn Ps. xxxix. 3.
2, 15.by the atonement of almsgiving, cp. Dan. iv. 27.
2, 18.the good will of man, cp. Phil. i. 15.
3, 1.a host of unhappy, nay, rather elect scholars "grex scholarium elegorum quin potius electorum."
3, 7.in the cultivated field of youth, quoted from the anonymous work "De varietate carminum."
3, 9.bright virtue lurks buried in obscurity. Boethius, De Consol. Phil. i. m. 5,—"Latet obscuris condita virtus Clara tenebris, justusque tulit Crimen iniqui."
3, 10.burning lights, cp. Matt. v. 15.
3, 14.vines into wild vines, cp. Isa. v. 2.
3, 15.olives into the wild olive, cp. Rom. xi. 24.
3, 21.the nectared cup of philosophy, "philosophiæ nectareo poculo," cp. the De disciplina Scholarium, C. V.
4, 6.that little with which Nature is contented, cp. Boethius, De Cons. Ph. ii. pr. 5.
4, 8.athletes of the faith, cp. "athleta Dei," a common phrase for a Christian.
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