309. Datan and Abiron: see Numbers xvi.
313-16. 'And all who do not care to learn my law (which I have left in the land newly, and which is to make known my Coming), and to go to my Sacrament, and those who will not believe in my Death and my Resurrection read in order—they are not true.'
338. þou bus, 'you ought'; bus, a Northern contracted form of behoves, is here used as a personal verb, where þe bus, 'it behoves thee', is normal. See note to XVII 196.
360. moste: read maste to rime with taste.
371. Of þis comyng: the Towneley MS. reading of Thi commyng is possible.
378-80: Corrupt. The copy from which the extant MS. was made seems to have been indistinct here. The Towneley MS. has:
Suffre thou neuer Thi sayntys to se
The sorow of thaym that won in wo,
Ay full of fylth, and may not fle,
which is more intelligible and nearer Psalm xvi. 10: