16797. For the opposite effect produced by love of a higher kind see Bal. l. 1,
‘De l’averous il fait franc et loial,
Et de vilein courtois et liberal.’
16817. 1 Cor. vi. 18.
16875. Bern. Super ‘Missus est’ Hom. i. 5, ‘Pulchra permistio virginitatis et humilitatis.’
16880. meist: this must be pret. subj. used for conditional, as in 16883.
16890. enterine, ‘perfect,’ notwithstanding her motherhood.
16906. clamour, standing for an adjective, ‘loudly expressed.’
16909. serront, ‘should be,’ i.e. ought to be, see note on 1184.
16919. ‘If he have nothing wherewith to give support to his hand’: cp. 13102, where the verb is transitive.