17876. ‘that purpose has little merit, which’ &c.: ‘decert’ for ‘desert,’ from ‘deservir,’ so also the substantive ‘decerte’ for ‘deserte.’
17882. sanz en faire glose, ‘without need of comment.’
17904. Nevertheless according to 17302 ff. he is bound to do so.
17935 ff. Cp. Trait. ii. 1,
‘Des bones almes l’un fait le ciel preignant,
Et l’autre emplist la terre de labour.’
The original of it is perhaps Jerome adv. Jovin. i. 16, ‘Nuptiae terram replent, virginitas paradisum.’ Much the same thing is said by Augustine and by others.
17945. Jerome, Ep. xxii. 20, ‘Laudo nuptias, laudo coniugium, sed quia mihi virgines generant: lego de spinis rosam.’
17948. 1 Cor. vii. 9.
17952. ‘as the highest teaching.’