Ecclus.

The extract in the note to l. 1132 occurs in the same chapter, but both clauses in it are borrowed; the former from Ecclus.

I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon, than to keep house with a wicked woman'; Ecclus.

This book contains both praise and dispraise of women; see Ecclus.

Pride is usually accounted as the chief of all sins, and the source of the rest; cf. Ecclus.

There is a remarkable resemblance between the natural objects mentioned in Ecclus.