[316]. blisse: hus R. bigotten: see 124/259: biȝeoten R, biȝoten T.
[317]. neomen: in the absolute use of betake itself, proceed: see 213/539: in is a mere repetition of the preceding ‘in’: comp. 143/67 note. her of begins the expansion of ‘laudant’: it does not refer to what precedes, but means, for the reason given in the following verse, ‘Beati qui habitant in domo tua, Domine; in saecula saeculorum laudabunt te,’ Ps. lxxxiii. 5.
[318]. lusti, finding pleasure: ‘sine fastidio.’ songes: read songe, as in R.
[321]. Comp. ‘Alle þeo ine heouene schulen beon ase swifte ase is nu monnes þouht, ⁊ ase is þe sunne gleam, þet smit from east into þe west, ant ase þe eie openeð ⁊ tuneð; . . . tet bodi schal beon hwar so euer þe gost wule in one hondhwule,’ AR 94/21.
[322]. tuneð &c.: ‘In momento, in ictu oculi,’ 1 Cor. xv. 52: ‘as tu turnest þin hond,’ HM 25/12.
[324]. etstonden: see 121/158.
[325]. ȝe: Ȝea T. makie to cwakien: for the dat. inf. of purpose, comp. 128/370; ‘he wæs . . . geneded to onfonne þa ðegnunge biscophades,’ Bede, 368/17. The construction has its equivalent in an object clause, as ‘makeð ham ꝥ ha beoð,’ 131/101.
[327]. The writer has neglected the translation of ‘de tali velocitate’ after blisse. ꝥ hit &c.: ‘quod nullum finem, nullam diminutionem, nullum detrimentum habebunt,’ V 209 b. me is miswritten for mei; mai T.
[329]. nower neh, nowhere near, falling far short of the reality; a phrase of this group, comp. ‘Nis hit nower neh gold al ꝥ ter schineð,’ HM 9/15; ‘ne schaltu nower neh | se lihtliche etsterten,’ SK 2094. R reads, Ah nower neh ne neh al; ne ꝥ ich iseh . ne ne con ich al tellen: T, Ah nower neh ne seh ich al . ne þat ȝet ꝥ ich seh ne con ich half tellen. Both are quite intelligible, R is nearest the original. W emends, ah nowðer ne seh ich al, | ne þet ȝet þet ich iseh | ne con ich half tellen. The Latin is, ‘Neque enim ut vidi dicere, neque ut sunt videre potui.’ ȝet, even.
[331]. efter þi sihðe, in accordance with what you saw: ‘vera vidisse, vera narrasse te intelligimus,’ V 209 c.