Suplet ibi rector regimen sponsi, que decore

Persoluit sponse debita iura sue.’

20401. Matt. xv. 14.

20425 ff. Note the loose usage of the conditional in this stanza for future, pres. subj., and in the sense noticed on l. 1688.

20441. au primer divis, ‘firstly’; so ‘au droit devis,’ ‘rightly.’

20449. Cp. Greg. Ep. vi. 57 (end).

20462. Probably Hos. v. 4-7.

20488. s’elle, &c., ‘as to whether she,’ &c.

20492. Perhaps Prov. vi. 27 ff.

20497 ff. The meaning of the word ‘annueler’ which occurs in the heading of the section is sufficiently explained in these lines. The corresponding passage in the Vox Clamantis is iii. 1555 ff.