904. 'Adulter est, inquit [Xystus, in sententiis] in suam uxorem amator ardentior,' &c.; S. Hieron. c. Iouinian. lib. i. (near the end)
906. There is no such passage in the E. version of the book of Tobit; but it occurs in the Vulgate, Tob. vi. 17; and see Ayenb. p. 223.
908. godsibbes, i. e. his godmother or his goddaughter. Already, in the Laws of Cnut (Eccles. § vii), we find that a man is forbidden to
marry his godmother; and this rule was formerly stringent. Cf. Ayenb. p. 48.
915. This section has much in common with the Fr. text. 'We meet,' says Dr. Eilers, 'with whole sentences in entire agreement.' See Ayenb. pp. 202-238.
916. two maneres, two ways; cf. the two 'states,' in Ayenb. p. 220.
918-19. Eph. v. 32; Gen. ii. 24; John ii. 1.
922. Eph. v. 25, again quoted in 929; 1 Cor. xi. 3.
927. desray, disorder, 'dissarray'; A. F. desrei, O. F. desroi; see derai in Stratmann.
930. MS. Hl. adds cap. iij. after Peter; hence the reference is to 1 Pet. iii. 1.