companion to the husband. For _qui junguntur lateribus, socii
sunt_, they that walke side to side and cheeke to cheeke, walke
as companions.

"Fifthly, I might adde, a bone from vnder the arme, to put the
man in remembrance of protection and defense to the woman.

"Sixthly, a bone not far from his heart to put him in minde of
dilection and loue to the woman. Lastly, a bone from the left
side, to put the woman in minde, that by reason of her frailty
and infirmity she standeth in need of both the one and the other
from her husband.

"To conclude my discourse, if these things be duely examined
when man taketh a woman to wife, _reparat latus suum_, what doth
he else but remember the maime that was sometimes made in his
side, and desireth to repaire it? _Repetit costam suam_, he
requireth and fetcheth back the rib that was taken from him,"
&c. &c.--From pp. 28, 30, of "_Vitis Palatina_, A sermon
appointed to be preached at Whitehall, upon Tuesday after the
marriage of the Ladie Elizabeth, her Grace, by the B. of London.
London: printed for John Bill, 1614."

The marriage actually took place on the 14th of February, 1612. In the
dedication to the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles I., the Bishop
(Dr. John King) hints that he had delayed the publication till the full
meaning of his text, which is Psalm xxviii. ver. 3, should have been
accomplished by the birth of a son, an event which had been recently
announced, and that, too, on the very day when this Psalm occurred in
the course of the Church service.