[316]. eal: mest leggeþ vre swynk J; leggeð almest D; muchel M. Comp. 32/57.
[318]. of: for oft: ofte J D M; E omits. bicherd, misled. bi kehte, ensnared, deceived. But J reads for the latter, vuele by þouhte, saddened by remembrance of our sins: comp. ‘þe man kið him seluen mildhertnesse þe biðencheð on his sinnen,’ OEH ii. 189/5.
[319]. erminges, miserable mortals: mostly an adj. in ME. as at 76/22, 31. Morris suggested erninges, gains.
[320]. en: of E J. her ⁊: oþer E J D M.
[321]-3. Comp. 40/197, 8.
[324]. of þere, of that: J has þer of.
[325]. ofte &c.: see 32/47.
[327]. lange: comp. 42/210; 168/342.
[328]. J substitutes ⁊ after gode wel wurche · þenne ne þuruue noht kare, and be vigorous in pursuit of good: comp. 30/21, 32/61.
[330]. Unless we are on our guard, this world will make us drunk: the meaning of fordrenche is fixed by drinche l. 331. adrenche D M, drown. With wurðe . . . iwer, comp. 9/122; with us, 13/34.