pour vous essampler, ‘by taking you as their example,’ cp. l. 6: but this is not a usual sense of ‘essampler.’
16. vo covine, ‘your disposition’: see Glossary.
XLVI. The lady speaks again.
5. sauf toutdis, ‘saving always’: cp. xxii. l. 26, ‘Salvant toutdis l’estat de vostre honour.’
15. See note on ii. l. 23.
18. par envoisure; cp. Mir. 988. Here it means ‘by raillery’ or ‘in jest.’
23. toutz passont a l’essai, ‘surpass all others at the trial.’
24. q’amour: the Roxb. ed. reduces the sentence to nonsense by giving ‘qamont,’ as conversely ‘damour’ for ‘damont’ in the margin of Bal. v.
XLVII. 2. fait sustenir, ‘doth support.’
4. qui le sciet maintenir, ‘if a man can preserve it’: cp. xxvi. l. 9.