and pure love forever. And
in his prologue he cries out aloud, that he addresses himself only to
him who is firmly resolved in all things to deny his own will, and to
hasten with all diligence to arrive at his heavenly kingdom.

Footnotes:
1. The titles of honor among our Saxon ancestors were, Etheling, prince
of the blond: chancellor, assistant to the king in giving judgments:
alderman, or ealderman, (not earldonnan, as Rapin Thoyras writes
this word in his first edition,) governor or viceroy. It is derived
from the word ald or old, like senator in Latin. Provinces, cities,
and sometimes wapentakes, had their alderman to govern them,
determine lawsuits, judge criminals, &c. That office gave place to
the title of earl, which was merely Danish, and introduced by
Canute. Sheriffe or she-reeve, was the deputy of the alderman,
chosen by him, sat judge in some courts, and saw sentence executed;
hence he was called vicecomes. Heartoghan signified, among our Saxon
ancestors, generals of armies, or dukes. Hengist, in the Saxon
chronicle, is heartogh; such were the dukes appointed by Constantine
the Great, to command the forces in the different provinces of the
Roman empire. These titles began to become hereditary with the
offices or command annexed under Pepin and Charlemagne, and grew
more frequent by the successors of these princes granting many
hereditary fiefs to noblemen, to which they annexed titular
dignities. Fiefs were an establishment of the Lombards, from whom
the emperors of Germany, and the kings of France, borrowed this
custom, and with it the feodal laws, of which no mention is made in
the Routun code. Titles began frequently to become merely honorary
about the time of Otho I. in Germany.

Reeve among the English Saxons was a steward. The bishop's reeve was
a bishop's steward for secular affairs, attending in his court.
Thanes, _i.e._, servants, were officers of the crown whom the king
recompensed with lands, sometimes to descend to their posterity, but
always to be held of him with some obligation of service, homage, or
acknowledgment. There were other lords of lands and vassals, who
enjoyed the title of thanes, and were distinguished from the king's
thanes. The ealdermen and dukes were all king's thanes, and all
others who held lands of the king by knight's service in chief, and
wer