[95], 96. From Ailred; ‘sunt quaedam inclusae, quae in docendis puellis occupantur, et cellam suam vertunt in scholam,’ 641 f. forwurðe, degenerate into; a meaning apparently found only in AR; its ordinary sense is, to perish, 54/23. Comp. ‘Þeo þet schulden one lecnen hore soule mid heorte bireousunge . . . uorwurðeð fisiciens ⁊ licomes leche,’ AR 368/28; ‘bicumeð (forwurðeð T) meister, þe schulde beon ancre,’ 64/24.
[96]. ꝥ—of, concerning whom it would be danger; comp. 1/3. For of, meaning ground, cause, comp. ‘strengðe of,’ 66/116; ‘gostlich fondunge þat is more dred of,’ AR 194/23: for pliht, risk, ‘Nu ne sceole ȝe halden eower child to plihte to longe hæþene,’ Twelfth Cent. Hom. 6/7: dute 79 N has the same meaning.
[97]. bimong: a form characteristic of AR and the allied writings.
[99]. See 64/68 note. In the next line writen probably means compose or copy books; comp. ‘Nulla etiam de nostris praesumat libros aliquos, vel orationes, vel meditationes scribere vel scribi facere sine assensu prioris omnium,’ Gilbertine Rule, p. *lxxxiii.
[100]. Their hair is to be cropped, idoddet, or shaven four times a year, or if any one prefers it, trimmed, ieueset, but in that case, the hair must be washed and combed more often, C 85; not more than seven times in the year according to the Gilbertine Rule.
[102]. beo bi, as at 62/45.
[103]. as ofte: four times a year, as in the Gilbertine Rule, p. *lvi. þe, who, equivalent to whoso; if any one can dispense with bloodletting; þer buten, without it: see NED. s.v. Here § 16.
[105]. þe þreo dahes, a recognized period of indulgence; ‘Minutis tribus diebus pitantia mane vinum autem bis datur . . . a laboribus vacant, ad lectos redeunt, a post prandium usque ad vesperas colloquium de bonis faciunt,’ Guigonis Consuetudines, Migne, P. L. cliii. 737.
[106]. schurteð, amuse: a rare word supposed to be cognate with Germ. scherzen. ‘Mes dalieȝ de paroles od voȝ meschines ⁊ od honestes countes solaceȝ vous ensemble,’ F.
[107]. beoð: the subject ȝe is understood from the preceding ow.