17532. ‘to be companions by Holy Church,’ that is by ordinance of Holy Church.
17593. Ecclus. ix. 2, xxv. 30.
17608. 2 Sam. vi.
17616. puis tout jour, ‘ever after.’
17630. ou, for ‘au,’ see Glossary.
17641. Cat. Distich. i. 8,
‘Nil temere uxori de seruis crede querenti,
Semper enim mulier quem coniux diligit odit.’
17689. ert: future in imperative sense, ‘shall be’; so in the lines that follow.
17702. Anne, called ‘Edna’ in the A. V.