31. Shapen was my death erst than my shert: My death was
decreed before my shirt ws shaped — that is, before any clothes
were made for me, before my birth.
32. Regne: Queen; French, “Reine;” Venus is meant. The
common reading, however, is “regne,” reign or power.
33. Launde: plain. Compare modern English, “lawn,” and
French, “Landes” — flat, bare marshy tracts in the south of
France.