[10]. ꝥ—hire, whose guidance if the household (hus = familia) follow: see [46/292 note]. diht &c.: see [66/120 note].
[11]. chasti, discipline, restrain: comp. ‘Hwil þi wit atstond ⁊ chaisteð þi wil . . . ne harmeð hit te nawiht,’ HM 15/26.
[13]. hit: see 1/10: ha RT.
[16]. wittes, senses: comp. ‘hire fif wittes . sihðe ⁊ heringe . smecchunge ⁊ smeallunge ⁊ euch limes felunge,’ HM 13/25; AR 48/8, 116/25.
[17]. hwer—ȝemeles: ‘Nam si vel parum a sua sollicitudine torpuerit,’ V 207 e.
[18]. feareð untoheliche, behaves in unruly fashion. gulteð ilome: see 34/91.
[19]. ifol semblant, in foolish demeanour: comp. ‘ȝif þu makest ei semblaunt oðer eni luue lates touward unðeauwes,’ AR 90/17. Inwið &c.: following on the division made in ll. 14, 15, we might have expected here something like, Þeo wið innen beoð þohtes.
[20]. in, busied about, intent on such a great variety of purposes to please Will. For in, of aim, object, comp. ‘He only, in a general honest thought | And common good to all, made one of them,’ Shakspere, Julius Caesar, v. v. 71. It might also be regarded as, in the shape of.
[21]. hit might be impersonal, that things shall go on to her liking, but comp. l. 10.
[22]. iþþlen can hardly be a mistake for ifelen (Specimens): it is possibly for iðolien. R has felen, T fele. nurhð, noise: comp. 129/47 note: ‘His laðliche nurð ⁊ his untohe bere makeð þe to agrisen,’ HM 31/22; ‘nurð ne kimeð in heorte bute of sum þing ꝥ me haueð oðer isehen oðer iherd,’ AR Corpus MS. where MS. Nero, ed. Morton, 92/3, has ‘noise’; ‘leaueð ower nurð . ant oþer ladliche bere,’ SM 21/20. The word is not found outside this group. T has murð, as at 118/22, but R with ‘murhðe’ there has correctly nurð here.