586. See 180/134. #meche#: ‘Namque maritus est sibi (_i.e._ animae)
Christus,’ T.
588. #fro himward#: see 178/89 note. The metre requires the omission of
-ward.
590. Read luue none: for the combination #leue . . . luue#, comp.
143/73. #ne--newe#, nor love any new one; comp. ‘Allas! is every man
thus trewe, | That every yere wolde have a newe,’ Chaucer, H. F. 301;
‘He wolde not him chawnge for no newe,’ Guy of Warwick, 122. This gives
the best sense and rhythm, but luue may be a noun governed by leue, and
l. 581 favours that interpretation.
591-593. ‘Quem superesse credit in aethre, | Inde futurum spectat eundem
| Ut microcosmum judicat omnem,’ T.