2. Hautein: loud, lofty; from French, “hautain.”

3. Radix malorum est cupiditas: “the love of money is the root

of all evil” (1 Tim.vi. 10)

4.All had she taken priestes two or three: even if she had

committed adultery with two or three priests.

5. Blackburied: The meaning of this is not very clear, but it is

probably a periphrastic and picturesque way of indicating

damnation.

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