17228. ‘which cause us to take matrimony upon us.’
17238 ff. Cp. Trait. iv.
17268. ‘I call in the world as my witness to this.’
17293. ‘If a man thus takes a wife’: cp. 1244, &c.
17308. Cp. Trait. v.
17310. jure avant, ‘proceeds to swear’: cp. 14730.
17336. Compare the popular lines,
‘When Adam dalf and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?’
Much the same argument as we have here is to be found in Conf. Am. iv. 2204 ff.