[Footnote V.30: Maimèd rites?] Curtailed, imperfect.
[Footnote V.31: Fordo its own life:] Destroy.
[Footnote V.32: 'Twas of some estate.] i.e., of rank or station.
[Footnote V.33: Command o'ersways the order,] The course which ecclesiastical rules prescribe.
[Footnote V.34: Shards,] i.e., broken pots or tiles.]
[Footnote V.35: Virgin crants,] i.e., virgin garlands. Nares, in his Glossary, says that crants is a German word, and probably Icelandic.