[22] Field.
[23] "Carry you beyond this region."
[24] For the knowledge of this poem I am indebted to the Early English Text Society, now printing so many valuable manuscripts.
[25] The for here is only an intensive.
[26] Pref is proof. Put in pref seems to stand for something more than being tested. Might it not mean proved to be a pearl of price?
[27] A word acknowledged to be obscure. Mr. Morris suggests on the left hand, as unbelieved.
[28] "Except that which his sole wit may judge."
[29] "Be equal to thy possessions:" "fit thy desires to thy means."
[30] "Ambition has uncertainty." We use the word ticklish still.
[31] "Is mingled everywhere."