17010. bealté seems here to be counted as three syllables. Regularly it is a dissyllable, as 18330, Bal. iv. 2.
17019. virginal endroit, ‘condition of virginity.’
17020. ‘Candor vestium sempiternus virginitatis est puritas.’
17030. Jerome, Comm. Ezech. xiv. 46, ‘Unde et virginitas maior est nuptiis, quia non exigitur ... sed offertur.’
17041. q’om doit nommer, ‘whom one may mention’: for the use of ‘devoir’ see note on 1193. Just below we have ‘doit tesmoigner,’ which seems to mean ‘may be a witness.’
17044. Rev. xiv. 1-4. Cp. Conf. Am. v. 6389.
17064. endie: perhaps this should be separated, ‘en die,’ but ‘endire’ seems to be used in several passages; see Glossary.
17067. Cp. Conf. Am. v. 6395* ff. Gregory says (i. Reg. Expos. v. 3) ‘incomparabili gratia Spiritus sancti efficitur, ut a manentibus in carne carnis corruptio nesciatur.’ But the quotation here and in the Conf. Am. seems to be not really from Gregory, but from Guibert or Gilbert (Migne Patrol. vol. clvi.), who says of virginity ‘adeo excellit ut in carne praeter carnem vivere ut vere angelica dicta sit,’ Mor. in Gen. v. 17; unless indeed he is quoting from Gregory. For Gilbert see 17113.
17074. Gen. i. 27.
17089. Cp. Trait. xvi. and Conf. Am. v. 6395 ff. The text of the Confessio Amantis makes Valentinian’s age ‘an hundred wynter,’ but the Latin margin both there and in the Traitié calls him ‘octogenarius.’