Note 1206 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE
Reading edition
Douce, Illustrations of Shakespeare (London, 1807), I, 108. Douce discusses the more interesting references to the betrothal in Shakespeare's plays: ibid., 107-14, 403. Cf. also Burn, op. cit., 140, 143. On the mediæval English practice of spousals, private and in church, see Palmer, Origines liturgicae, II, 211, 212; and in general Jeaffreson, Brides and Bridals, I, 60-87; Brand, Popular Antiquities, II, 87 ff.