And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Ver. 2. And she being with child] And so soon smelt out by the bears of the world. Ursa praegnantem mulierem non solum uteri gravitate notam, sed eam etiam quae pridie conceperit, solam ex omni turba consectatur. (Bodin. Theatr. Nat.)
Cried travailing] Being hard beset with cruel persecutors, she longs to be delivered of a Christian emperor, that might put her out of her pain and misery.
She cried] viz. In her prayers to God and apologies to men.